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Same old faces.
:59:05
Same old faces.
:59:08
Ten years this school's been opened,
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and ten years have we seen, after
every assembly, a line of boys here,
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and the same old faces.
:59:18
- Sir, I've got a message...
- Shut up. Don't interrupt. Close the door.
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I've taught in this city for over 30 years.
:59:27
I taught some of your parents -
your father, MacDowall -
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in the old slum schools in the city,
:59:34
before they built this fine estate,
and this wonderful school.
:59:40
Things are no better now
than they were then.
:59:43
I just can't understand this generation.
:59:46
I thought I knew something
about young people.
:59:48
I should be able to,
you know, with my experience.
:59:52
But with you, no.
:59:54
lt just seems a complete
waste of money and a waste of time.
:59:59
And it's a waste of time
talking to you now.
1:00:01
- You're not listening, are you?
- Yes, sir.
1:00:04
You're not! Crossland,
you're not listening, are you?
1:00:06
- I am, sir.
- None of you are listening!
1:00:08
Look at that glazed expression
on your faces.
1:00:11
You never listen!
Yours is the generation that never listens!
1:00:15
Cos we can never tell you anything.
1:00:18
You're the sophisticated ones,
1:00:21
with all your music, and your gear.
1:00:24
But, you know, it's superficial.
It's a sheen.
1:00:28
There's nothing solid
or worthwhile underneath.
1:00:31
And why do I know this?
1:00:34
Why do I know there's been
no advance in discipline or decency,
1:00:38
or morals or manners?
1:00:40
Why do I know it? Because I still
have to use this to you boys every day.
1:00:46
Why? In the '20s and '30s,
I could understand it.
1:00:50
They were hard times,
1:00:52
but they produced qualities in people
that you lot will never have.
1:00:56
I can be stopped in the street
by someone I taught then.
1:00:58
We'll talk about the old days, and we'll
laugh about the thrashings I gave him.