![]() ![]() That's "seize the day." KEATING Very good, Mr- MEEKS Meeks. Now who knows what that means? MEEKS Carpe diem. "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may." The Latin term for that sentiment is "Carpe diem". Somewhat appropriate, isn't it? PITTS Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a-flying: And this same flowers that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying. ![]() PITTS "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time"? KEATING Yes. Pitts, will you open your hymnal to page 542? Read the first stanza of the poem you find there. I would go to the beach, and people would kick copies of Byron in my face. I was the intellectual equivalent of a ninety- eight-pound weakling. And no, at that time, I was not the mental giant you see before you. Yes, I, too, attended Hellton and have survived. Keating, or, if you're slightly more daring, "O Captain! My Captain." KEATING Now let me dispel a few rumors, so they don't fester into facts. Now, this class, you can either call me Mr. KEATING Not a clue? It's from a poem by Walt Whitman about Mr. KEATING "O Captain! My Captain!" Who knows where that comes from? Anybody. BOY 1 Hey, Spaz! Spaz! BOY 2 Brian damaged. Let me urge you now not to test me on this point. ![]() Anyone failing to turn in any homework assignment will be penalized one point off their final grade. HABER Your study of trigonometry requires absolute precision. The first twenty questions at the end of Chapter One are due tomorrow. McALLISTER Slow down, boys! Slow down, you horrible phalanx of pubescence! SCIENCE TEACHER Pick three laboratory experiments from the project list and report on them every five weeks. ![]() MEEKS Well, uh, Latin, eight o'clock in my room? NEIL Yeah. It's just a bunch of jerks trying to impress Nolan. CHARLIE Well, I wouldn't lose too much sleep over it. So what are you gonna do, then? NEIL What I have to do. NEIL Well, stop telling me how to talk to my father. Future Banker? KNOX Okay, so I don't like it any more than you do. NEIL Oh, that's rich! Like you guys tell your parents off, Mr. CHARLIE Why doesn't he let you do what you want? KNOX Yeah. You need anything, you let us know, huh? NEIL Yes, sir. PERRY You know how much this means to your mother, don't you? NEIL Yes, sir. PERRY After you've finished medical school and you're on your own, then you can do as you damn well please. PERRY Don't you ever dispute me in public! Do you understand? NEIL Father, I wasn't disputing you- MR. PERRY Fellas? Would you excuse us for a moment? MR. NEIL But I'm the assistant editor this year. And I've decided that you should drop school annual. I think that you're taking too many extracurricular activities this semester. CHARLIE It's every bit as tough as they say. NEIL Todd's brother was Jeffrey Anderson. Anyone mind including him? CHARLIE What's his specialty? Bootlicking? NEIL Uh, he's your roommate. CHARLIE Gentlemen, what are the four pillars? BOYS Travesty! Horror! Decadence! Excrement! CHARLIE Okay, study group. How was your summer, Slick? CHARLIE Keen. Know what I mean? CHARLIE Rumor has it you did summer school. He's, uh, born with his foot in his mouth. CAMERON Business as usual, huh? Hey, I heard you got the new kid. FATHER And, oh, did you remember your vaporizer? And the vapor- BOY Hey, how's it going, Neil? CAMERON Neil? Study group tonight? NEIL Yeah, sure. And if he has trouble breathing, you give him- HABER All right, fine. And, oh, if he, if he can't, uh, swallow, you give him one of these. NEIL Oh, so you're that Anderson! FATHER This is for his sinuses. NEIL Why'd you leave Balincrest? TODD My brother went here. NOLAN Neil, we expect great things from you this year. John Keating, himself an honor's graduate of this school and who, for the past several years, has been teaching at the highly regarded Chester School in London. You will have the opportunity later to meet his replacement Mr. Portius of the English Department retired last term. This is why we are the best preparatory school in the United States. This is why you parents have been sending your sons. This, this kind of accomplishment is the result of fervent dedication to the principles taught here. Last year we graduated fifty-one and more than seventy-five percent of those went on to the Ivy League. NOLAN In her first year, Welton Academy graduated five students. Gentlemen, what are the four pillars? BOYS Tradition! Honor! Discipline! Excellence! MR. NOLAN One hundred years ago, in 1859, forty-one boys sat in this room and were asked the same question that now greets you at the start of each semester. NOLAN Ladies and gentlemen, boys, the light of the knowledge. ![]()
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