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1
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This is how Hector describes A Levels

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Those longed-for emblems of conformity

2
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Scripts view on education

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Love apart, it is the only education worth having

3
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A quote from Lockwood, promoting Irwin’s theory of education

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Everybody will do that. That’s the stock answer, sir…

4
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Irwin’s view on education contrasts Hectors

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Education isn’t something for when they’re old and gr y and sitting by the fire. It’s for now.

5
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Irwin talking about Stalin

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Find something, anything, to say in their defence

6
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Mrs Lintott presents this view of education

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Properly organised facts

7
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This indicates the Headmaster’s shallow take on education

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All bright but they need polish. Edge.

8
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Hector Quotes AE Housman

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All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use

9
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Shows Scripps anger towards Irwin’s teaching of the holocaust.

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Not good point, sir. True.

10
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Hector believes exams are….

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The enemy of education

11
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This stresses Irwin’s view on the need for originality in exams

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You can write down, rudge, that ‘I must not write down every word that teacher says’

12
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Mrs Lintott tells us about how little Hector cared for the boys proper education

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Hector never bothered with what he was educating these boys for