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1
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The headmasters superficiality is revealed when talking to Mrs Lintott (p8)

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Factually tip-top as your boys always are, something more is required

2
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Bond between Hector and boys is established (p6)

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Child, I am your teacher. Whatever I do in this room is a token of my trust.

3
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Irwin’s populist views on history are shown (p35)

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History nowadays is not a matter of conviction. It’s a performance. It’s entertainment. And if it isn’t, make it so.

4
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Headmaster expresses his outrage at Hectors touching of the boys (p53)

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A hand on a boy’s genitals at fifty miles an hour, and you call it nothing?

5
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Hector is shown to be in despair (p65)

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What made me piss my life away in this god-forsaken place

6
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Hector may not be all that he seems (p4)

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Studied eccentricity

7
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Hector reveals himself to be more sensitive than Irwin in the holocaust scene (p70)

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How can you teach the holocaust?

8
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Irwin shows off his tactic to doing well in history exams (p74)

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this is history. Distance yourself.

9
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Irwin’s tactics are shown to be successful (p97)

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Splendid news! Poster a scholarship, Dakin an exhibition and places for everyone else.

10
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A quote supporting Bennett’s views on the randomness of history (p105)

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And here history rattled over the points…

11
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A quote that completely demonstrates Hector’s views on education. (p109)

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Pass it on boys. That’s the game I wanted you to learn. Pass it on.

12
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An important comment that shows Irwin’s cynical nature (p1)

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Paradox works well and mists up the windows

13
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Shows a knowledge is a means to an end for Irwin (p26)

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Poetry is good up to a point. Adds flavour.

14
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Shows how Hector loves literature (p56)

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The best moment in reading is when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things that you thought special to you

15
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Hector rejects Irwin’s exam technique (p83)

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Why can they not just tell the truth?

16
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Hector does not understand that touching the boys was wrong (p95)

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I didn’t actually do anything. It was a laying on of hands

17
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Explains Lintott’s factual approach to history (p9)

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Plainly stated and organised facts need no presentation, surely

18
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Mrs Lintott shows her feminist views (p85)

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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men.

19
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Reveals the headmasters superficial approach to education (p9)

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Think charm. Think polish. Think Renaissance Man.

20
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A quote to suggest Posner’s approach to education (p7)

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[From King Lear] Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say

21
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Rudge’s simple and comedic view on history (p85)

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It’s just one fucking thing after another

22
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Mrs Lintott’s view on male-dominated history (p85)

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History is women following behind with a bucket

23
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Irwin’s view on exam technique is shown - originality (p26)

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You can write down, Rudge, that ‘I must not write down every word the teacher says.’

24
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Irwin’s views on what education is for contrasts that of Hector’s
(p49)

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Education isn’t something for when they are old and grey and sitting by the fire. It’s for now.

25
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Indicates the Headmaster’s opinion on the boys education (p11)

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All bright but they need polish. Edge.

26
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Shows Dakin sees Fiona as territory to conquer (p28)

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She’s my Western front.

27
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Hector voices his suppressed desires (p94)

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See it as an inoculation, rather. Briefly painful but providing immunity for however long it takes.

28
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Mrs Lintott’s cynical view on why women marry (p92)

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Man’s lukewarm attentions just what they married them for