“The History boys” by Alan Bennett is a play that depicts different educational styles, which give divergent points of view of the 1980s scholastic system. “The History boys” mirrors the progressions in instructive approach and procedures under the government of Margaret Thatcher, and promotes many problems about the way of training and information that stay vital even for today’s education. During Thatcherism, league tables were introduced to allow parents to see how local schools measured up against each other and schools nationally. This put all educational institutes in the UK under pressure, as they were required to execute better to in previous years. This pressure influenced both teachers and students, constraining the important and
