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Senator Bell:
Let me ask you something. What's the good of what you're teachin' those boys? William Hundert:
"The good"? Senator Bell:
Yes. The good. William Hundert:
Well, Senator, the Greeks and the Romans provided the model of democracy, which, I don't need to tell you, the framers of our own Constitution used as their inspiration. But more to the point, I think when the boys read Plato and Aristotle, Cicero, Julius Caesar even, they're put in direct contact with men who, in their own age, exemplified the highest standards of statesmanship, of civic virtue, of character conviction. Senator Bell:
[Chuckles]
Boy, that is a horse that can talk! So you're saying that my son Sedgwick has his head up his ass
Let me ask you something. What's the good of what you're teachin' those boys? William Hundert:
"The good"? Senator Bell:
Yes. The good. William Hundert:
Well, Senator, the Greeks and the Romans provided the model of democracy, which, I don't need to tell you, the framers of our own Constitution used as their inspiration. But more to the point, I think when the boys read Plato and Aristotle, Cicero, Julius Caesar even, they're put in direct contact with men who, in their own age, exemplified the highest standards of statesmanship, of civic virtue, of character conviction. Senator Bell:
[Chuckles]
Boy, that is a horse that can talk! So you're saying that my son Sedgwick has his head up his ass
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Let me ask you something
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What's the good of what you're teachin' those boys
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The good Yes The good
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Well Senator
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the Greeks and Romans provided
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a model of democracy which
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I don't need to tell you the framers of our own Constitution
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used as their inspiration
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But more to the point I think when the boys read Plato Aristotle
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Cicero Julius Caesar even
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they're put in direct contact with men who
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in their own age exemplified
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the highest standards of statesmanship
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of civic virtue
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of character conviction
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Chuckles Boy that is a horse that can talk
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So you're sayin' that my son Sedgewick has his head up his ass
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Movie Summary
William Hundert is a passionate and principled Classics professor who finds his tightly-controlled world shaken and inexorably altered when a new student, Sedgewick Bell, walks into his classroom. What begins as a fierce battle of wills gives way to a close student-teacher relationship, but results in a life lesson for Hundert that will still haunt him a quarter of a century later.
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Senator Bell
William Hundert
