Professor Mansfield: Reality is, reality changes constantly. Yesterday's reality may not necessarily be today's. Everybody got a pencil? Okay, good. Hold it up. Little higher. Little lower. Perfect, right there. Now break it in half. What a sound. From now on, we're going to be using our minds.
Will: Hey, hey, give me a pencil. Give me a pencil.
Professor Mansfield: This course isn't about taking notes. This course is about creative thinking. All right, look, conservatives, right? Liberals, rappers, skinheads, nudists and televangelists, they all have something in common. You know what it is?
Will: Ooh, they all been on Montel Williams.
Professor Mansfield: See, I can't hear you because you no longer exist.
Will: Oh, but you could shove me, though, right?
Professor Mansfield: What they have in common is they all have a distinct version of the truth. But do we really care what the truth is? No, not really. We want to know, "How come nobody loves me?" "Where's my next paycheck coming from?" "How come I never get any breaks in life?" Okay, let's get on our feet. We need a couple of volunteers to start with. Let's get some people who have a personal philosophy that is rooted in, oh, I don't know, sex. [all hands go up] Okay, that's what I thought. Nothing kinky, we just need two. Denise, right? Denise and... [closes the door on Will] Evan. Good. All right, right up there. Now, don't be nervous. You're gonna engage in a little dialectic. Dialectic is a ten-dollar word, and it means "debate." [closes the blinds on Will]
Janitor: [to Will] Man! I should have never dropped out of his class.