:52:02
But to the aspirations
of your students...
:52:05
of hard-working students
who come here...
:52:08
who slave to come here...
:52:10
You have no idea what it cost me
to come to this school.
:52:15
You mock us.
:52:17
You call education hazing...
:52:20
and from your so-protected,
so-elitist seat...
:52:23
you hold our confusion
as a joke...
:52:25
and our hopes and efforts
with it.
:52:27
Then you sit there and say,
"What have I done?"
:52:30
And ask me to understand
that you have aspirations, too.
:52:34
But I tell you...
:52:36
I tell you that you are vile...
:52:39
and that you are exploitative...
:52:41
and if you possess one ounce
of that inner honesty...
:52:45
you describe in your book...
:52:46
you can look in yourself and
see those things that I see...
:52:51
and you can find revulsion
equal to my own. Good day.
:52:54
Wait a second, will you?
Just one moment.
:52:56
Nice day today.
:53:01
What?
:53:02
You said good day.
:53:04
I think that it is
a nice day today.
:53:06
- Is it?
- Yes, I think it is.
:53:08
Why is that important?
:53:09
Because...
:53:11
it's the essence
of all human communication.
:53:14
I say something conventional,
you respond...
:53:17
and the information we exchange
is not about the weather...
:53:19
but that we agree to converse.
:53:21
In effect, we agree
that we are both human.
:53:24
I am not an exploiter...
:53:25
and you are not a deranged,
what, revolutionary?
:53:29
That we may have positions...
:53:32
and that we may have desires
which are in conflict...
:53:34
but that we're just human...
:53:36
that means sometimes
we're imperfect.
:53:39
Often, we're in conflict.
:53:41
Much of what we do...
you're right...
:53:42
in the name of principles
is self-serving.
:53:45
Much of what we do
is conventional.
:53:47
You're right.
:53:49
You said you came into the class
to learn about education.
:53:53
I don't know that
I can teach you about education.
:53:55
But I know I can tell you
what I think about education...
:53:58
and then you decide.