:45:03
We say he's arrested.
:45:06
We call him a moron.
:45:07
Well!
:45:08
I'm not sure that I like my daughter
Louise thought of that way.
:45:13
And by her teacher!
:45:15
Your Louise is a charming
little creature.
:45:17
But we must try to examine
the problem without prejudice.
:45:21
Your daughter, at her present
stage of development...
:45:24
...is roughly on an intellectual
par with the African gorilla.
:45:31
Isn't it getting hot here?
:45:40
Excuse me, sir.
:45:42
She's the President of the PTA.
:45:44
Really?
:45:49
What, after all, from the Stone
Age to the present day...
:45:53
...has been the greatest
invention of mankind?
:45:55
Has anyone a match?
:45:58
Thank you.
:46:03
Fire?
:46:07
The wheel?
:46:09
The Safety Pin?
:46:11
The hydrogen Bomb?
:46:14
No, Ladies and gentlemen,...
the alphabet.
:46:17
And persons like
myself are required...
:46:20
...to teach these bewildered kids...
:46:22
...to read by a system of
'word recognition'...
:46:24
...as though our language were
a collection of ideograms.
:46:29
And it amazes us that our kids
can't even read comics.
:46:32
Some of us have been waiting
to hear this kind of talk.
:46:37
He's telling us we ought to
get back to the old three R's.
:46:40
The three R's? That's just
a catch-phrase.
:46:43
Before it's too late we ought to get
back to the real fundamentals.
:46:46
And I'm not talking of
primary education now.
:46:49
We're breeding a race
of moral midgets.
:46:54
All this hogwash about
'self-expression',...
:46:57
...'permissiveness',...
:46:59
...'development patterns',...