“Timms, I never understand poetry. But learn it now, know it now and you’ll understand it whenever.

Examinations are the enemy of education

Was against the idea of students going to Oxford because “other boys want to go there”

the real name is Douglas

could hit students

teaches everything academically

“They know their stuff. Plainly stated and properly organized facts need no presentation”

“these days teachers just remember the books they discovered and loved as students and shove them on the syllabus. Then they wonder thy their pupils aren’t keen as they are”

Truth is no more at issue in an examination

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

Education must be something of a lottery

This person is a geographer who also speaks French

_______and the boys are having a lesson entirely in French

_________ parents complain about the way Irwin has been teaching the Holocaust (they are Jewish).

Who was in love with Dakin?

Who believed in God?

He tends to write down every word that the teacher says