:52:03
You're not obliged to continue teaching?
:52:06
Not after I've fulfilled
my five-year engagement.
:52:09
Actually, I like it.
:52:12
Wouldn't you rather...
:52:15
...do as I do? Have a more active life?
:52:19
Organize conferences...
:52:21
...work for the press,
television, publishing?
:52:24
That kind of thing isn't for me.
:52:27
Maybe it's suited to your...
:52:29
...personality, but definitely not to mine.
:52:32
In that sector, we're always dependent...
:52:35
...on someone or something,
even at the highest level, if we make it.
:52:39
Whereas, in my class,
I am the absolute master.
:52:42
When the students allow it!
:52:44
But that's my job.
:52:46
They listen to you? Bravo!
:52:48
If they don't listen, it's my fault.
:52:50
That's not the question.
:52:53
I believe they listen to you, but how?
:52:56
I know what I'm talking about.
I'm working on my master's in Philosophy.
:53:01
But I keep my philosophy to myself.
:53:04
I have no desire to share it
with people who couldn't care less...
:53:08
...whether it's mine, Plato's or Spinoza's.
:53:11
That's where you're wrong.
:53:13
That's what I thought, but it's false.
:53:15
My students don't come
from an intellectual background.
:53:18
I teach in a working-class suburb...
:53:20
...but I claim they are interested
in philosophy, even fascinated.
:53:23
All of them?
:53:25
Enough of them.
:53:26
More, I'm sure than in literature or history.
:53:30
It seems odd, but for them
it's a question of pride:
:53:33
It's embarrassing to get
a bad grade in Philosophy.
:53:36
-Really?
-Yes.
:53:37
It's like saying they're unable to think.