:19:02
They really give it to you, didn't they?
:19:06
Like everybody else,
they really give it to you.
:19:09
Have you been drinking?
:19:10
Work yourself to death, then they
bring in an outsider to pick the plum.
:19:15
You have been drinking.
:19:17
I know you keep a bottle in the
basement, but I won't have you...
:19:21
...bring it into the classroom, ever.
Don't forget.
:19:24
It'd do your kids good to learn
how to handle liquor...
:19:27
...instead of algebra.
:19:28
- You're talking like a fool.
- Oh, be I.
:19:33
I sat in this classroom four years.
:19:39
I sat right here.
:19:42
Everything important
was learned somewheres else.
:19:45
You never applied yourself.
:19:47
If you had, you might've
learned something in school.
:19:50
Tell my wife, a cleaning woman.
:19:52
- Tell me, a janitor, cleaning toilets.
- Stop it!
:19:55
- Tell every mill worker behind on his bills.
- I said, stop it.
:19:59
If you had applied yourself, you might
have learned how to live intelligently.
:20:03
There ain't nobody in this here town
living intelligently. Nobody.
:20:07
- I don't believe that.
- All right.
:20:10
Name me one important person
graduated from this here school.
:20:14
Name one. You can't.
:20:17
I'm gonna tell you something,
Ms. Thornton...
:20:19
...something you can
teach your class someday.
:20:23
The minute they walk out that door,
they walk into a dog-eat-dog world.
:20:28
It's crawl in front of the big dogs
if you want to eat, get a job.
:20:33
I won't do it. I won't do it!
:20:36
That's why I'm washing windows,
scrubbing walls, emptying ashes.
:20:46
I never had nothing I ever wanted.
:20:49
Shakespeare did me no more good...
:20:51
...than Washington did
crossing the Delaware.
:20:54
You didn't help yourself.
:20:57
Elsie, I'd like to have you meet
Mike Rossi. Ms. Thornton.