The History Boys
Sep 01, 2021
2 minutes
by Alan Bennett
‘In his ability to inspire, Hector is the sort of teacher many of us would have loved to have had’
AS a Leeds grammar-school boy preparing to take a scholarship exam for Oxford, Alan Bennett worked out a clever system of reducing ‘everything I knew to a set of notes with answers to possible questions and odd, eye-catching quotations all written out on a series of forty or fifty was thus written out of what he described as ‘a mild sense of guilt’.
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