:23:01
Rip it out!
:23:06
What the hell is going on here?
:23:09
- I don't hear enough rips!
- Mr Keating.
:23:13
Mr McAllister.
:23:17
I'm sorry.
l, I didn't know you were here.
:23:21
I am. Ah.
:23:23
So you are.
:23:26
Excuse me.
:23:29
Keep ripping, gentlemen!
:23:31
This is a battle, a war.
:23:34
And the casualties could be
your hearts and souls.
:23:36
Thank you, Mr Dalton.
:23:38
Armies of academics going forward
measuring poetry.
:23:41
No! We'll not have that here.
No more Mr J. Evans Pritchard.
:23:45
Now, my class, you will learn
to think for yourselves again.
:23:48
You will learn to savour
words and language.
:23:52
No matter what anybody tells you...
:23:54
words and ideas can change the world.
:23:58
Now I see that look in Mr Pitt's eye,
like 19th century literature...
:24:01
has nothing to do with going
to business school or medical school.
:24:04
Right? Maybe.
:24:06
Mr Hopkins, you may agree with him,
thinking...
:24:08
"Yes, we should simply study
our Mr Pritchard
and learn our rhyme and metre...
:24:13
and go quietly about the business
of achieving other ambitions."
:24:18
I've a little secret for you.
Huddle up.
:24:20
Huddle up!
:24:30
We don't read and write poetry
because it's cute.
:24:34
We read and write poetry because
we are members of the human race...
:24:38
and the human race
is filled with passion.
:24:43
And medicine, law, business,
engineering...
:24:45
these are noble pursuits
and necessary to sustain life.
:24:49
But poetry, beauty...
:24:52
romance, love...
:24:55
these are what we stay alive for.
:24:57
To quote from Whitman...