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Headmaster: Why are you dressed as a milk man? - Shows lack of understanding for the boys who are in a working class
Headmaster: There Clever but they lack Crass. Ms. Lintot They know there stuff. But they Lack Flare. -

Hector: All Knowledge is useful even if it doesnt serve the slightest need

Hector: Its the hot Ticket - Happyness
Headmaster: I thought of going. But this was in the 50s. Change was in the air. I was a Geographer. I went to...... Headmaster: Odity- Rudge.

Posner: I'll Go sir - Hector: Nevermind.

Irwin: Has any one been to Rome, Venince.

So why bother Irwin: I dont know, I wold go to newcastle, save the money and be happy.

Irwin: whats truth got to do with it.

Ms. Lintot: Cunt Strunct, Compound adjective.

Hector: At least im doing better than felix.

Posner: Although he laughs the laughs on me.

Rudge: What fun must you all have

Dakin: Lititure is about loosers.

Gobits

Pass the parcel thats all sometimes you can do. Take it feel. Not for me not for you.

Headmaster:This Is no time for poetry
Headmaster: are you going to tell your wife.

Posner is the only one who attends his lesson after four?
Posner is the only one who goes up to mr hector when he is crying
Dakin: Is that the subjunctive or the

It will pass
Who says I want it to pass

Why dont you all just tell the truth.

Ms. Lintot “History is a commetary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men”

Rudge: Its just one fucking thing after another. If they like me and they take me then theyll take me because im dull and ordinary like everybody else.

Irwin: Dont you ever want to go back? Im not clever enough, im not anything enough really.

Hector: What I didnt want was to turn out boys who would claim In later life to have a deep love of literature.

Has a boy ever made you unhappy? They used to do. See it as an Inoculation, Rather. Briefly painful, but providing

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