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Grandma Rommely:
This reading will not stop! I say this thing. To this new land, your grandfather and I came very long ago now because we heard that here is something very good. Hard we worked, very hard, but we could not find this thing. For a long time, I do not understand, and then I know. When I am old, I know. In that old country, a child can rise no higher than his father's state. But here, in this place, each one is free to go as far as he's good to make of himself. This way, the child can be better than the parent and this is the true way things grow better. And this has to do something with the learning, which is here *free* to all people. I, who am old, miss this thing. My children miss this thing. But My children's children shall not miss it. This reading will not stop
This reading will not stop! I say this thing. To this new land, your grandfather and I came very long ago now because we heard that here is something very good. Hard we worked, very hard, but we could not find this thing. For a long time, I do not understand, and then I know. When I am old, I know. In that old country, a child can rise no higher than his father's state. But here, in this place, each one is free to go as far as he's good to make of himself. This way, the child can be better than the parent and this is the true way things grow better. And this has to do something with the learning, which is here *free* to all people. I, who am old, miss this thing. My children miss this thing. But My children's children shall not miss it. This reading will not stop
Full Transcript
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Must be pretty special,
this place you walk to
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that's two blocks away
from the market.
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This way, Papa.
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Is this it?
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Yes, Papa.
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The school?
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I don't understand.
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It must be just as nice inside,
don't you think?
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The teachers
and all and...
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What are you
driving at, baby?
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Bend down, Papa.
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I wish I could go
to that school, Papa.
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(EXCLAIMS)
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(STUTTERING) Well,
I don't know, baby.
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It would be awful nice,
but they got rules.
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You gotta go to the school where you live.
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I know.
I didn't really...
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Well, now.
Now, wait a minute.
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Maybe there's a way.
It's a free country, ain't it?
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(SINGING) School days,
school days
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Hey! Maybe we could move near here.
When?
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Well, now, whoa, whoa.
Sometime soon.
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As soon as our ship comes in,
prima donna. You'll see.
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Only by that time,
I'll...
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You wanna go there awful bad,
don't you, baby?
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Then we're gonna
find a way.
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Honest?
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Well, now,
I gotta turn this over a little.
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Let's do some more walking.
Maybe it's good for thinking, too.
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(SINGING) School days,
school days
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Hey, that ain't
a bad little house.
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How'd you like
to live there?
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It's got a nice
little porch.
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I don't like
yellow houses.
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With another
coat of paint?
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Papa. That's it.
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Yes, sir. That's it.
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If we only could.
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Well, why can't we?
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Our luck's
bound to change,
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and the first thing we'll do is
buy this little house when...
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Someday.
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Look. Come here.
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As long as we're gonna
buy that house someday,
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why don't we maybe
borrow it for now,
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like we'll make
out it's ours.
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Movie Summary
Encouraged by her idealistic if luckless father, a bright and imaginative young woman comes of age in a Brooklyn tenement during the early 1900s.
Actors
Grandma Rommely
