About "To Sir, with Love II"

Memorable Quotes for To Sir with Love II (TV) (1996)

student: They got their minds made up about us, Mr. Thackeray.
Mark Thackeray: Then change them.
student: Yeah, right! Maybe that would work where you're from or where you went. You know, you run off to England and you teach in some school and you REALLY think you're something, don't you?

Mark Thackeray: I AM something - everyone is.

student: Well, in this country you're nothin'. It don't matter how many schools you teach in... you and me, we walk down the street and all people are gonna see is black skin.

Mark Thackeray: What do you want them to see?

student: Me.

Mark Thackeray: Who are you? Do you see YOU the way you want to be seen? Then you must see character in yourself, discipline in yourself, determination in yourself - to survive - with dignity, no matter how tough the world around you is. Is that who you are? If not, is that who you want to be? If so, come... let's go walk down a street and see what we can GET them to see.
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Mark Thackeray: What we saw yesterday is that to a considerable extent, we control how we are perceived. "Yo!" Gets you one response, "Excuse me, sir," another. When we address someone with respect, we are more often than likely to GET respect - not always, but more often than you think, and if you're smart, that ought to be enough. Common courtesy - "please", "thank you", "excuse me"... magical words, magical words.

"When we watched this film, racism was very present. In this school the school board discriminates the bad students. This isn't good because shouldn't be negatively competing among them.
This school doesn't help these students because the school board think they are lost in their lives and there was nothing to be done about them.
Mr. Thackeray symbolizes the strength to overcome all that situation and he gives them self-confidence. He turned those students into worthwhile people to live with."

Paulo

"In my opinion, I think the movie was good and it showed very well to us what racism is and how black people react before insults and discrimination.
Mr. Mark Thackeray was a teacher in a school, in Chicago. In that school there were two sections: A and H. In Section H the students were discriminated and in Mr. Thacheray's class there were many black students being one a gangster leader. He was very problematic.
I think that Mark Thackeray could teach them properly: he managed to have them changing their attitude towards other people and the way other people looked at them also changed on that account.
He manage to show to us that sometimes we think wrongly about certain people and that is n't very often a fair attitude to have."

Joana Rita

"Racism is a feeling that can lead to some behaviours and attitudes. Sometimes this discrimination makes target people become aggressive. A good example of that is the film To Sir, with Love II.
When people start to feel they are not import to anybody else, they just want to call the others' attention onto themvelves. This is what happens with Mr. Thackeray's class.
Teachers put them aside even before knowing them so teachers think they are all the same and don't care about them. These students try to show off so that the other students get ware of their existence. Although no one can understand their attitudes, they do what they do for a reason. There are many cases like this all over the world.
Only someone like Mr. Thackeray who doesn't mind if the others are black or white, if they belong to the U-class or not, can talk to them and make himslef be heard among them.
With this I want to show that it doesn't matter where people are from or whether they have money or are excellent students. We are all equal and deserve to have our rights respected."

A. Paula

"According to my point of view this film isn't all about racism The movie is a bout a group of young people that is discriminated by others. They take good care of each other like a family. They think they are discriminated by others and that they have no future. Their teachers porve to them they are wrong though. They are all equal!"

Daniela

"When I saw this movie, I noticed that the differences between students in the same school was huge. That is sad.
We are a school and one by one we build the school as we want it to be and building a wall leaving the' best' on one side and the' worst' on the other is ridiculous.
What is being the 'best' or the 'worst'? What makes people distinct? Nothing. We all have the chance of making our dreams come true and it's not because we have a different skin colour, greasy hair or being on our own that people are led to think we can't make it. People are not allowed to hurt us.
I know what this sort of suffering is like. It's not good. We feel apart as if we are some kind of aberration and this movie shows there are people who can helps have confidence in our own attitudes and learn to accept other people's help.
I think we should accept these chances and try to trust people, right? People are all different . Hopefully there will be a Mark Thacheray waiting for us somewhere.
Racism is bad. Segreagation is bad. But... it's up to us to change all that. When the others think they are superiro and try to minimize us, it's because they are just jealous!
:) I really loved the movie. "

Sara

"In the movie To Sir, with Love II we can see quite a bit of racism. That happens when Mr. Thackeray gets a job to his students and they start to discuss why the jobs are mostly to white people. For me that's the only scene in the movie where racism is to be seen. The rest of the movie shows us about the segregation existing in that school."

André

"In this movie racism is clear as everybody associates gangs with black people. If we pay attention, we can see that almost everybody belonging to H section is black; they had no opportunity to show what they were capable to do and so they allowed that rebel and useless stereotype to be a fact.
Mr. Thackeray is the living proof that H section students can put an end to such a reputation. He helps them to think for themselves, he educates them by showing them they can speak and act politely and that will help them to get a job more easily and be taken seriously."

Ana Sofia

"Many people are rejected by society, not only because of their skin colour but also because of their culture, their religion, their habits, their homeland and mainly because of their appearence.
This movie shows us that we are all equal and all of us may not have a good life but they can fight to improve their living conditions. All of us can either change our life or make it different if we feel like it. However what we need sometimes is somebody to help us to change it. In my opinion, Mr. Thacheray represents every kind of help people can have.
After watching this movie, I feel much stronger to continue doing what I really am up to and I've learned that all of us own this strength independently from our own differences. The only difference is that this strength is hidden deep inside all of us and we only need to have guts to make use of it in a real way."

Tita

"This movie was really cool. I really liked that. It showed me that we all can have the same opportunities no matter what race we are. If we want, we have it. There is no job for just one race. Anyone can have a job anywhere. Mr. Thackeray showed that to his students. He trusted that classgroup and he helped them to trust themselves. He showed them they weren't different from the other schoolmates although the school principal didn't find it. Mr. Thackeray, the History teacher, taught his classgroup to face themselves as they really were.
I really, really liked the movie: it shows us that we can't give up being what we are just because someone doesn't believe we can be somone in this short life. We just have to fight for that and we'll be able to make it. Just because we are different for the others, it doesn't mean we can't have the ame opportunities, it doesn't mean we have to live separated from the others"

Lara

"In this movie I saw some sort of racism: school separates students into two sections: A and H. The students in section H are called the 'losers'. A teacher, Mr. Thackeray belives the 'lost' section can do something worthwhile and proves that these students have the same capacities of the students in section A. They all finish their high school studies as the section A students did.
In reality that situation occurs frequently but sometimes there's nobody trusting the weaker ones."

Adalberto

"The movie features a classgroup in a school in Chicago. What's special about this class is that all the students come from troubled families and have different origins.
Throughout the movie there are several displays of racism, mainly inside the school. The most evident display was in the classroom.
When Mr.Thacheray announced he was going to find a job for whoever anted one, Frankie stated that no one ever helped him because he was white when, in fact, the vicims of racism were black people as they could getn't certain jobs. Unfortunately that kind of racism was very common.
In the end all their differences were put aside when they offered "passive resistence" to Mr. Thackeray's firing."

Ricardo " Manois"