To Sir, with Love II Page #3

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No, thank you.

Tell me where England is, | Miss Hillis.

Europe. And it's an island, | so you have to take a boat.

You could fly. | I could get there in five minutes.

Nose candy'll get you there in one.

You think that's funny? You're | a bunch of fools, you know that?

Don't you see that this brother | is trying to mess with your heads?

That's what I'm here for.

Maybe you've forgotten, | but I asked you to say my name.

Then I'm going to ask you | to sit down.

Hot in here, ain't it?

Sit down, Mr. Laredo. | You didn't get permission.

It's hot in here. | It's a warm day. Sit down.

It's hot. | We're smarter if we're comfortable.

I'm going to faint. | Let me open one window, man.

Man? | Sir.

Open a window.

We're gonna need more than just one.

Check out the windows.

Come in.

Did you see the windows? | I saw them.

Turn that off. Turn it off. | All right, get in your seats.

Look at the windows. | Where's my seat?

Over there. | That ain't my seat.

Take it for the time being. Okay, sit.

Where are you sitting? | Sit there.

That's my seat. | Just take your seats.

Come, come, come. Get in your seats. | You know where you were.

To your seat, please. To your seat. | All right. Sit down.

That ain't my seat. | Put that down. Put that down!

History. It wouldn't make much sense

to get on a subway if we didn't know | where we wanted to go.

Stan does it all the time. | He's cruising.

Bastard. | Enough of that.

When you want to speak, | raise your hand.

My point is, it matters | where we are going.

History is how we know who we are.

We are all products of history. | What's so funny, Mr. Laredo?

I didn't say nothing. | But you laughed.

Ask him. | I'm asking you.

Frankie says he don't know about | history, but he knows who he is.

But does he?

Frankie don't know who he is!

Maybe our boy think he Elvis.

Why don't you have your mom put | your name in your mittens, Frankie?

All right! Sit.

Sit, sit.

Sit down.

We're all pretty much agreed | that it's a very funny idea,

someone not knowing who he is.

But let's see what we actually know.

Who would like to go first? | Tell me who you are.

You the one we don't know | nothing about.

Yeah, Mr. Thackeray.

I was born and raised in Guyana | in South America.

It's a very poor country.

When I was a year older than most | of you are now, I moved to England,

where I had a much better chance | of finding a job.

I found one, teaching in a school | very much like this school.

That sounds like | a messed-up country.

Most places are messed up, | Mr. Laredo.

The only way that will change is | if we can get most people educated.

That's the story of my life.

I taught in London | until I retired this year.

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