19 quotes
Academic Expectations and Surprises in Admissions
Felix" The Headmaster
One oddity: Rudge. And Christ Church of all places! Might get into Loughborough... on a bad year... otherwise all brights!
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The Role of Women in History
Mrs. Lintott
History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind... with a bucket.
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Connection Through Shared Thoughts in Literature
Hector
The best moments in reading are when you come across something — a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things — that you'd thought special, particular to you. And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you've never met, maybe even someone long dead. And it's as if a hand has come out and taken yours.
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Making History with the Boys
Taglines
Meet The Boys Who Are Making History!
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Defining History Through Sequential Events
Rudge
How do I define history? It's just one fuckin thing after another.
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The Limits of Improvement and Potential
Felix" The Headmaster
I said it from the start: you can't polish a turd! (About Rudge)
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A Geographer's Journey to Hull
Felix" The Headmaster
I was a geographer. I went to Hull.
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Pupils' Knowledge of Classic Songs
Felix" The Headmaster
On enquiry I find his pupils know all the words of "When I'm Cleaning Windows". And Gracie Fields, Dorothy, Gracie Fields.
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Reflections on Youth and Innocence Lost
Scripps
No more genital massage as one speed along leafy suburban roads. No more the bike's melancholy long withdrawing roar as he dropped you at the corner, your honor still intact.
[on Hector being sacked]
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The Shifting Perspective of Historical Interpretation
Irwin
But this is History. Distance yourselves. Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground. We don't see it, and because we don't see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past. And one of the historian's jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be... even on the Holocaust.
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The Importance of Passing Knowledge Forward
Hector
Pass the parcel. That's sometimes all you can do. Take it, feel it, and pass it on. Not for me, not for you, but for someone, somewhere, one day. Pass it on, boys. That's the game I want you to learn. Pass it on.
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Ambitions of Academic Prestige
Felix" The Headmaster
I want to be up there with Manchester Grammar, Haberdasher Askes, Leighton Park... or is that an open prison? No matter.
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The Relentless Nature of History
Taglines
History. It's just one fucking thing after another.
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Importance of Elaborate Answers in Education
Hector
Remember boys: festoon your answers with gobbets, and you won't go far wrong.
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Balancing Talent and Refinement in Education
Felix" The Headmaster
They're good... but they're crass. They need polish... edge.
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Literature as Consolation for Life's Losers
Dakin
The more you read, though, the more you'll see that literature is actually about losers... It's consolation. All literature is consolation.
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The Game of Reinterpreting Facts
Dakin
Turning facts on their heads. It's like a game.
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The Importance of Genuine Literary Appreciation
Hector
I would hate to turn out boys who, in later life, would claim to have a love of literature, or speak of the lure of language, and their love of words. Words, said in a way that's somehow... Welsh.
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Perspective on Germany and War in 1914
Irwin
The truth was, in 1914, Germany doesn't want war. Yeah, there's an arms race, but it's Britain who's leading it. So, why does no one admit this?
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