Max Headroom (TV Series)

Lessons (1988)

Lewis Dauber: Blank Teacher

Quotes 

• [the Metrocops lead away handcuffed Blank Teacher they've just arrested for teaching the children of "The Fringes" to read using tapes pirated from a Subscription TV channel] 

  Blank Teacher : Reading is a right, not a privilege!

  Dragul : A right that must be earned; a commodity that must be purchased.

  Blank Teacher : These kids have the right to knowledge, philistine!

  Dragul : Not if it is stolen property. That tape is pirated from Pay Education TV.

  [to metrocop] 

  Dragul : Chief, get rid of him. If these vermin want it, they should pay for it, like everyone else.

  Blank Teacher : With what, man? You've closed the circle! No pay, no learning, no pay! You've stolen our right to know!

  Dragul : Words are much too valuable to be free. If you were educated, you would know that.