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I know I'm stupid.
I know what I am.
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I know what I am, Professor.
You don't have to tell me.
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It's pathetic, isn't it?
:14:07
Uh-huh. Sit down.
:14:11
Sit down, please?
:14:12
Please, sit down.
:14:13
- Why?
- I want to talk to you.
:14:16
- Why?
- Just sit down, please.
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Sit down!
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Will you, please?
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What?
:14:28
I know what
you're talking about.
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No, you don't.
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- I think I do.
- How can you?
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I'll tell you a story
about myself.
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Do you mind?
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I was raised
to think myself stupid.
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What do you mean?
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Just what I said.
I was brought up...
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and my earliest and
most persistent memories...
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are of being told
that I was stupid.
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"You have such intelligence.
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"Why must
you behave so stupidly?"
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Or "Can't you understand?"
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And I could not understand.
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What?
:14:57
The simplest problem
was beyond me.
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It was a mystery.
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- What was a mystery?
- How people learn.
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How I could learn.
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Which is what
I've been speaking of in class.
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And, of course,
you can't hear it, Carol.
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Of course you can't.
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If you are told...
Listen to this...
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If the young child is told
that he cannot understand...
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then he takes it
as a description of himself.
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What am I?
:15:22
I am that
which cannot understand.
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And I saw you back there...
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when we were speaking
of the concept...
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I can't understand any of them.
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Then that's my fault.
:15:32
That is not your fault.
And that is not verbiage.
:15:36
That is what I firmly hold
to be the truth.
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And I'm sorry.
:15:41
And I owe you an apology.
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Why?
:15:47
I suppose I've had
some things on my mind.
:15:51
We're buying a house...
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People said
that you were stupid?
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Yes.
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Yes.
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When?
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I'll tell you when.
Through my life.