How does Bennett present different views on education through Hector, Mrs. Lintott and Irwin. Essay Example
In this essay I will show that there are different views on education and that we see them in the different teachers. You can see that Hector is the more outgoing teacher. Mrs Lintott is the stereotypical teacher and Irwin is the new teacher with new views on education. I will go in-depth into the teacher's point of view. I will start with the one of the main teachers and that is Hector.
Hector is a very important character he is one that thinks that children should not only be taught the syllabus that the government gives but they should be learning how to be well-round beings and have the knowledge to go throw life and be successful in everything they do this is shown in this quote "[Hector during his general studies class with the boys] I'll let you in on a little secret boys. there is no such thing as general studies. general studies is a waste of time. knowledge is not general. it is specific.". You can see that in this quote that he thinks that the class he is teaching is not a class because the general means in is everywhere the same but he think it is specific which means it has many different complicated explanations which change with time. He also thinks that the knowledge he has should be passed on to the next generation and not kept inside "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." these are the last lines of the play and the last quote of Hector. This shows that all of the things that he was teaching the boys was for their knowledge and to make them people that they are suppose to be. The headmaster thinks differently about Hector he thinks that Hector is not a proper teacher and that he is just a joke "There is passion there. Or, as I prefer to call it, commitment. But not curriculum-directed. Not curriculum-directed at all." This shows that the headmaster doesn't really want the
Hector is a very important character he is one that thinks that children should not only be taught the syllabus that the government gives but they should be learning how to be well-round beings and have the knowledge to go throw life and be successful in everything they do this is shown in this quote "[Hector during his general studies class with the boys] I'll let you in on a little secret boys. there is no such thing as general studies. general studies is a waste of time. knowledge is not general. it is specific.". You can see that in this quote that he thinks that the class he is teaching is not a class because the general means in is everywhere the same but he think it is specific which means it has many different complicated explanations which change with time. He also thinks that the knowledge he has should be passed on to the next generation and not kept inside "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." these are the last lines of the play and the last quote of Hector. This shows that all of the things that he was teaching the boys was for their knowledge and to make them people that they are suppose to be. The headmaster thinks differently about Hector he thinks that Hector is not a proper teacher and that he is just a joke "There is passion there. Or, as I prefer to call it, commitment. But not curriculum-directed. Not curriculum-directed at all." This shows that the headmaster doesn't really want the