Accepted - Questioning Substance Use Among Friends
Diane Gaines:
Are you huffing?
Bartleby:
Oh god.
Diane Gaines:
Are you high?
Jack Gaines:
You're huffing grass?
Bartleby:
No I'm not huffing mom I'm not stoned I'm completely fine, in fact I'm more clear and level headed than I've ever been.
Jack Gaines:
Okay cut the crap Bartleby. Society has rules and the first rule is: You go to college. You wanna have a happy and successful life, you go to college. If you wanna be somebody, you go to college. If you wanna fit in, you go to college.
Bartleby:
Well you know what? Maybe I didn't get into college!
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Accepted - Critique of Education and Consumer Culture
Bartleby:
Uh, Dean Lewis why don't you tell them a little bit about the philosophy here at south Harmon?
Ben:
Look, we throw a lot of fancy words in front of these kids in order to attract them to going to school in the belief that they're gonna have a better life, and we know that all were doing is breeding a whole new generation of buyers and sellers, BUYERS AND SELLERS! Pimps and whores, PIMPS AND WHORES! and indoctrinating them into a life long hell of debt and indecision!
Jack Gaines:
I... I, I just don't understand...
Ben:
DO I HAVE TO SPOON FEED IT TO YA? look, there's only one reason that kids want to go to school...
Bartleby: [quietly]
Holy shit...
Jack Gaines: [after long pause]
... Which is?
Ben:
...To get a good job... To get a good job, with a great starting salary.
Jack Gaines: [long pause]
I couldn't agree more.
Diane Gaines:
It is so refreshing to have somebody approach education so rationally!
Ben:
Fuckin A!
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