Educating: Debut Albums and Rita Quotation Act
- Pages: 4
- Word count: 764
- Category: Education
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1. Rita: âDo you get a lot of students like me?â
Frank: âNot exactly, no…â
2. Rita: âYou work for the ordinary university, donât yâ? With the real students.â
3. Rita: âIf I pack the course in Iâll post it to yâ.â
4. Rita: âBut if you want change yâ have to do it from the inside.â
5. Frank: âI think youâre the first breath of air thatâs been in this room for years.â
6. Frank: âI think youâre marvellous.â
7. Rita: âI donât wanna baby yet. I wanna discover meself first.â
8. Frank: âIâm actually appalling teacher⊠appalling teaching is quite in order for most of my appalling students.â
Scene 2
1. Rita: âIf Iâd started takinâ school seriously, I would have had to become different from me mates, anâ thatâs not allowed.â
2. Rita: âStudyinâ was just for the whimps, wasnât it?â
3. Rita: âTill one day, yâ own up to yourself anâ yâ say, is this it? Is this the absolute maximum I can expect form this livinâ lark? Anâ thatâs the big moment that one, thatâs the point when yâ have to decide whether itâs gonna be another change of dress or a change in yourself. Anâ itâs really temptinâ to go out anâ get another dress yâ know, it is. Cos itâs easy, it doesnât cost anythinâ it doesnât upset anyone around yâ. Like cos they donât want yâ to change.â
4. Rita: â ⊠anâ yâ all havinâ a great time talkinâ about somethinâ anâ te next thing they wanna do is turn it into a lesson.â
5. Frank: â Possessing a hungry mind is not, in itself, a guarantee of success.â
Scene 3
Rita: âIâm dead ignorant yâ know.â
2. Rita: âIâm here to learn. My mindâs full of junk, isnât it? It needs a good clearinâ out.â
Scene 4
1. Rita: âDenny getâs dead narked if I work at home. He doesnât like me doinâ this. I canât be bothered arguinâ with him.â
Rita: âCos by us there is no meaninâ of life.â
3. Rita: ââŠthey know theyâve got nothinâ as well. Thereâs like this soft of disease. But no one mentions it; everyone behaves as though itâs normal..â
4. Rita: âYou know what I learnt from you, about art anâ literature, it feeds me, inside. I can get through the rest of the week if I know Iâve got cominâ here to look forward to. Denny tried to stop me cominâ tonight. He tried to get me to go out to the pub with him anâ his mates. He hates me cominâ here. Itâs like drug addicts, isnât it? They hate it when one of them tries to break away. It makes me stronger cominâ here. Thatâ what Dennyâs frightened of.â
Scene 6
Rita: âWell I just – i just had to tell someone whoâd understand.â
Frank: âIâm honored that you chose me.â
Scene 7
Rita didnât come to the party.
1. Rita: ââŠI was thinkinâ what to wear⊠Anâ all the time Iâm trying to think of things I can say, what I can talk about.â
2. Frank: âDonât you realize how people would have seen you if youâd just- just breezed in? They would have seen someone whoâs funny, delightful, charmingâŠâ
3. Rita: âFunny? Whatâs funny? I donât wanna be funny. I wanna talk seriously with the rest of you, I donât wanna spend the night takinâ the piss, cominâ on with the funnies because thatâs the only way I can get into the conversation. I didnât want to come to your house just to play the court jester.â
4. Rita: âBut I donât want to be meself. Me? Whatâs me? Some stupid woman who gives us all a laugh because she thinks she can learn, because she thinks that one day sheâll like the rest of them, talkinâ seriously, confidently, with knowledge, livinâ a civilized life.â
5. Rita: âBecause Iâm a freak. I canât talk to the people I live with any more. Anâ I canât talk to the likes of them on Saturday, or them out there, because I canât learn the language.â
6. Rita: âIâm a half-caste.â
7. Rita: âI said, âWhy are yâ cryinâ, Mother?â She said, âBecause- because we could sing better songs than those.â Denny pretending she hadnât said it. But she had. And thatâs why I come back. And thatâs why Iâm staying.â