Bartleby：(To Van Horne)Why？Why can’t we both exist？Huh？You can have your grades，and your rules and your structure，and your ivory towers31，and then we’ll do things our way.Why do we have to conform to32 what you want？
Van Horne：Your curriculum is a joke，and you，sir，are a criminal33.
Bartleby：You know what？You’re a criminal.’Cause you rob these kids of their creativity and their passion.All are cheering.
Bartleby：That’s the real crime！
Jack：Yeah.
Diane：(To Jack)Maybe he’s right.
Bartleby：Well，what about you parents？Did…Did the system really work out for you？Did it teach you to follow your heart，or to just play it safe，roll over？What about you guys？Did you always want to be school administrators34？Dr.Alexander，was that your dream？Or maybe no，maybe you wanted to be a poet.Maybe you wanted to be a magician or an artist.Maybe you just wanted to travel the world.Look，I—I—I—I lied to you.I lied to all of you，and I’m sorry.Dad，especially to you.But out of that desperation35，something happened that was so amazing.Life was full of possibilities.A-A-And isn’t that what you ultimately want for us？As parents，I mean，is…is that，is possibilities.Well，we came here today to ask for your approval36，and something just occurred to me.I don’t give a shit！Who cares about your approval？We don’t need your approval to tell us that what we did was real.’Cause there are so few truths in this world，that when you see one，you know it.And I know that it is a truth that real learning took place at South Harmon.Whether you like it or not，it did.’Cause you don’t need teachers or classrooms or—or fancy highbrow37 traditions or money to really learn.You just need people with a desire to better themselves，and we got that by the shit load at South Harmon.So you can go ahead，sign your forms，reject us and shoot us down，and do whatever you gotta do.It doesn’t really matter at this point.Because we’ll never stop learning，and we’ll never stop growing，and we’ll never forget the ideals that were instilled in us at our place.’Cause we are S.H.I.T.heads now，and we’ll be S.H.I.T.heads forever and nothing you can say or do or stamp38 can take that away from us！So go！Go ahead！
All were cheering ecstatically.
注释
1.panel/p？nl/n.评审团，调查团
2.facility/f？"siliti i/n.设施，设备
3.curriculum/k？"rikjul？m/n.课程
4.faculty/"f？k？lti/n.全体教员
5.ramp/r？mp/n.斜坡
6.tiki/"tiki/n.提基（波利尼西亚神话中人类的始祖）
7.mental hospital精神病院（同：psychiatric hospital）
8.slack/sl？k/v.闲荡，懒散
9.bumper sticker[美]汽车保险杠的标贴
10.merit/"merit/n.优点
11.scholastic/sk？"l？stik/a.学术的
12.aerodynamics/？ε？r？udai"n？miks/n.空气动力学
13.lyrical/"lirik？/a.抒情诗调的，感情丰富的
14.angst/ɑ：？st/n.焦虑
15.preposterous/pri"p？st？r？s/a.荒谬的，可笑的
16.accredit/？"kredit/v.鉴定……为合格
17.present and accounted for[美俚]全体到场无误（同：all present and correct）
18.academia/？？k？"di：mi？/n.学术界
19.wash out[俚]被淘汰，被清理
20.drunk//dr？？k/n.酒鬼
21.degenerate/di"d？en？reit/n.堕落者
22.Looney Tunes兔八哥（卡通形象）
23.shove/？？v/v.猛推，乱塞
24.rejection/ri"d？ek？？n/n.拒绝
25.haze/heiz/v.戏弄（尤其是新来者）
26.humiliate/hju："milieit/v.羞辱
27.freak/fri：k/n.[美俚]奇怪的人，怪胎
28.addict/？"dikt/n.瘾君子
29.phony//"f？uni/n.假的
30.demean/di"mi：n/v.贬损，诋毁
31.ivory tower象牙塔
32.conform to遵照，符合
33.criminal/"krimin？l/n.罪犯
34.administrator/？d"ministreit？/n.（行政）管理者
