在人的一生中和历史的长河中，一朝一夕一时的得失、成败，其实并没那么重要，关键的是我们能诚实面对自己和保持自己做人的原则性。在我们的现实中，我们确会常常动摇，你会发现自己活得好艰难，因为别人并不都会如你一样：“Well, can I say,Mr. Hundert,who gives a shit? Honestly. Who out there gives a shit…aboutyour principles and yourvirtues? ”但是我们还是应该保有一种信心。因为：“Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown,ignorance can be educated and drunkenness sobered,but stupid…Iasts forever.”
所以，其实一位学生若不能遇到一个好学校，能遇到一位好老师，也是非常的重要的，或者甚至可以说，在这两者之中，对于某一个具体的个人来说，后者可能更重要。而我们的现实无疑就是，我们的好学校很少，好老师，亦很少。我想或许每一个老师都应该记住影片结尾时Hundert 老师的这一句话：“I had come here in the hope that I had been wrong about Sedgewick Bell.Or rather,that I had been right--right to believe in him all those years ago.But this is a story without surprises.As a student of history,I could be shocked…neither by his audacity,nor his success.I had failed Sedgewick.But the worth of a life is not determined…by a single failure,or a solitary success.My other students taught me that.However much we stumble,it is a teacher's burden always to hope…that with learning, a boy's character might be changed.And, so,the destiny of a man.”而这亦就是一个老师的信心，或者说，教育的信心；而这就是，我们为什么还需要教育，还需要老师：因为无论如何，总还会有学生去愿意领受，并愿意接受改变。（二零零九年十二月三十一日）
