I've seen the old traditions dying one by one. Grace, dignity, feeling for the past. All that matters here today is a fat banking account. You're trying to run the school like a factory for turning out moneymaking machine-made snobs! You've raised the fees, and in the end the boys who really belong to Brookfield will be frozen out, frozen out. Modern methods, intensive training, poppycock! Give a boy a sense of humor and a sense of proportion and he'll stand up to anything.
-- Mr. Chips
from: Goodbye, Mr. Chips
(1939)
(1939)Robert Donat acted as Mr. Chips
Mr. Chips was referring to Brookfield, a boarding school, in early twentieth century England. But things haven't changed very much in the last hundred years. Most schools and colleges of today are no more than factories for turning out a work force that conforms to the current social order.
Mr. Chips
Robert Donat
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
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