Hector's boy

Dayton 2022-03-26 09:01:15

Chapter 1 The Years of Students

After getting so many A's that the principal had never seen before, these young people left school cheering. Whether the same scene is also clearly imprinted in your memory. The satisfaction brought by hard work and achievements, the happy expressions among classmates, have you ever thought of the hard work and rewards in the past? Then in the welcome of eyes and laughter, Mr. Hector's 'morning' pulled me back from my memory. These young people turned out to be on their way to school in the new semester. The principal said, new term, new push.

Chapter 2 where Hector

is one of the main lines of the film takes place - Hector behaves excessively towards his students. However, judging from Hector's elaboration, his consistent behavior, and students' evaluation of him, the incident was not caused by Hector's inability to control himself, because except for traditional concepts, everyone actually admitted the fact that a broken back may exist at any time. , but it happened between teachers and students that others were caught off guard. There is no need to avoid it, and if it cannot be explained correctly, young people seem to have a preventive method and have reached a consensus.

Chapter 3 Posner likes Dakin

's new teacher, Irwin, gets along well with these young people, from skepticism to acceptance, attraction and even curiosity. Will his presence make these young people's views sharper and more interesting? As the headmaster said, Hector taught them culture, Dorothy taught them history, and they still need to be polished. In order to get into Oxford or Cambridge, they need to be better. And it was at this time that Posner's youthful feelings were revealed so unthinkingly, even if it was a same-sex attachment.

Chapter 3 1/2 The Headmaster

is like Kogoro in the live-action version of Conan, weird but responsible and somewhat hysterical. For the honor of the school, for the future of the children, and for the noble teachers in the school, I have been making serious and reasonable arrangements. No matter if he is teased or complained, he is always a good principal with due diligence, although he is not very friendly on the surface. a good transmitter.

Chapter 4 Knowledge and Education

Literature and art, political history, language, music and poetry, these young people are extensively educated and practiced. Education does not just impart knowledge to them, but to let them understand how knowledge comes, why and how to derive their own understanding from knowledge. And knowledge itself does not need to be cumbersome and excessive, as Scripps said, it's an acting job. Of course, if you want to be a teacher, like Hector, you really need more knowledge to teach others to understand this truth, that is, knowledge is used to produce the next process, and excess knowledge becomes education. So, Hector's lifelong effort, remembered for his quote, is about inheritance and passing - pass the parcel, that's sometime all you can do.

Chapter 5 is about learning

In the learning/reading process, the best moments are when You have an idea, a feeling, an angle of looking at things. These things that you think are special and are only suitable for you are originally here and recorded here by another person. A person you don't know, who may have been dead for a long time, seems to stretch out his hand to hold yours.

Chapter 6 What is history?

Irwin: History is how we predict how we will see what is happening.
Dorothy: History is a comment on the incompetence of various, unchanging men.
Scripps: History is about things happening one by one.

In the seventh chapter,

Dakin expressed his feelings for Irwin and made a request. The courage and wit he showed broke through the standard and shyness that only existed on the surface, reached and broke through the deep core and desire, so that everything could have a little meaning. He is the fine fruit of a perfect educational system. The hug he gave to Posner, who liked him, symbolized that such a spirit would take root and be passed down again and again. When Hector took Irwin on his motorcycle and went away to the cheers of the kids, he didn't want to part with him like that.

Glad to read it again to remember him.

love apart, it is the only education worth having.

pass the parcel, that's sometime all you can do.
take it, feel it, and pass it on
not for me, not for you
but for someone, somewhere
one day

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Extended Reading

The History Boys quotes

  • [talking about Tom Irwin]

    Headmaster: He comes highly-recommended.

    Mrs. Lintott: So did Anne of Cleves.

    Headmaster: Who? He's up-to-the-minute, more "now".

    Mrs. Lintott: [dryly] Now? I thought history was "then".

  • [Dakin is groping Fiona, using World War I as a metaphor for his "assault" on her body. He moves his hand up her thighs but she pushes it away]

    Dakin: What's the matter?

    Fiona: No-man's land.

    Dakin: Ah, fuck. What do I do with this?

    [he points to his erection]

    Fiona: Carry out a controlled explosion?