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Themes - EDUCATION Flashcards

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“and now, proudly jingling your A levels……

Hector

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…….those longed-for emblems of your conformity…”

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“Nothing that happens here (in General Studies) has anything to do with getting on, but remember……

Hector

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……‘All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use’”

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“You give them an education……

Hector to Mrs Lintott

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…….I give them the wherewithal to resist it”

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“I count examinations, even for Oxbridge and Cambridge…….

Hector

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…….as the enemy of education”

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“Gobbets? Is that what you think they are, Gobbets?…….

Hector to Irwin

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……Handy little quotes that can be trotted out to make a point?…..Except they’re learned by the heart, and that is where they belong”

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“(When looking at exam papers)……

Hector

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……Ah. Pornography”

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“SHUT UP, you mindless fools……..

Hector

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……..What made me piss my life away in this God-forsaken place. There’s nothing of me left”

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“Are they smiling (at Auschwitz?) Do they hold hands?……….

Hector

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……..Nothing is appropriate. Just as questions on an examination paper are inappropriate”

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“Why not simply condemn the camps outright……..

Hector

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……..as an unprecedented horror?”

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“Do you know what the worst thing is?…….

Hector

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………I wanted them to show off, to come up with the short answer, the handy quote. It’s time I went”

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“Magnificently unprepared for the……….

Hector

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……..long littleness of life”

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“Pass the parcel. That sometimes all you can do. Take it, feel it, and pass it on……..

Hector

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………Not for me, not for you, but for someone, somewhere, one day. Pass it on - that’s the game I wanted you to learn”

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“Poetry is good……..

Irwin

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…….up to a point. Adds flavour”

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“Put head to head with them and, on the evidence of these essays…….

Irwin

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………none of you have got a hope”

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“But they need polish…….

Headmaster to Irwin

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……..Edge. Your job”

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“I sympathise with your feeling about examinations……..

Irwin to Hector

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………but they are a fact of life”

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“Education isn’t something for when they’re old………

Irwin

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……..and grey and sitting by the fire. It’s for now”

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“Remember, our puny efforts notwithstanding……..

Irwin

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……..you will be up against boys and girls taught much better than you”

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“(go back To Oxford? Not clever enough……….

Irwin

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………Not…anything enough really”

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“He was a good man……

Irwin

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…….but I do not think there is time for his kind of teaching anymore”

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“But I am thinking………..

Headmaster

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“……..league tables”

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“Plain stated and properly organised facts need no presentation surely” …………..

Mrs Lintott

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…………….. “Oh, Dorothy. I think they do. The facts: serving suggestion”

Headmaster

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“How are our young men doing?………….

Headmaster

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………Are they ‘on stream’?”

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“I do not want to sack you. It’s so untidy………….

Headmaster

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………..It would be easier for all concerned if you retired early”

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“Shall I tell you what is wrong with Hector as a teacher? It isn’t that he doesn’t produce results. He does………

Headmaster

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…………..But they are unpredictable and unquantifiable and the the current education climate that is no use”

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“Hector why don’t you take it?”

“Then he won’t be in the picture”

“Hector doesn’t mind”

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“The boys might”

“It isn’t for the boys. It’s for the school”

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“Hector would say………..

Scripps

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……..it’s the only education worth having (Posner’s pain)”

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“…going around the corner he leaned out instead of in and unbalanced Hector……..

Scripps

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…………Trust Irwin to lean the opposite way to everyone else”

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“All that effort went into getting their (Cambridge)………..

Posner

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……….and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on”

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“Not good point, sir. True……..

Posner

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………….To you the Holocaust is just another topic on which we may get a question”

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“Of all Hector’s boys, there is only one who truly took everything to heart…the songs, the poems, the sayings, the endings; the words of Hector never forgotten (Posner raises his hand)…………….

Mrs Lintott on Posner

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……………He lives alone in a cottage…has periodic breakdowns…He haunts the public library…he has long since stopped asking himself where it went wrong”

32
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“Firm foundations type thing……..

Rudge on Mrs Lintott

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…….Point A. Point B. Point C”

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“One of the hardest things for the boys to learn is that a teacher is human………

Mrs Lintott

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…………One of the hardest things for a teenager to learn is not to try and tell them”

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“One thing you’ll learn if you plan to stay in this benighted profession……….

Mrs Lintott

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……….is that the chief enemy of culture in any school is always”

35
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“Forgive Hector. He is trying to be the kind of teacher…………

Mrs Lintott

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……….pupils will remember. Someone they will look back on”

36
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“(Irwin) was the one who made me realise you were allowed to think like this……..

Dakin

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………I didn’t know you were allowed to call art and literature into question”

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“He’s gone right off me…………

Dakin

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………….Thinks I’ve gone over to the enemy”

38
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“Reckless, impulsive, immoral………..

Dakin to Irwin

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…….how come there’s such a difference between the way you teach and the way you live?”

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“So what’s the verdict, sir?………

Rudge

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………What do I write down?”

40
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“It’s an angle………..

Rudge

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………..You want us to find an angle”

41
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“How come they told me……..

Rudge

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……….or how come they took a thick sod like me?”

42
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“We couldn’t that (use Hector’s quotes in an exam), sir…………

Akthar

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………….That would be a betrayal of trust. Laying bare our souls, sir”

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“Now they’re non-plussed and embarrassed…Scripps is nearest to him and ought to touch him but doesn’t……………….

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……………Posner is the one who comes and after some hesitation pats Hector awkwardly on the back”

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“There was the time he put his head down on the desk………..

Lockwood

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………..It was the first time I realised a teacher was a human being”

English Lit: The History Boys (11 decks)

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