Daily Dialogue — June 7, 2019

Prof. Robert Crawford: [to Jamal] Perhaps your skills do reach farther than basketball. 
Jamal: “Further” 
Prof. Robert Crawford: What? 
Claire Spence: [whispered to Jamal] Don’t… 
Jamal: [to Crawford] You said that my skills reached “farther” than basketball. “Farther” relates to distance, “further” is a definition of degree. You should have said “further”. 
Prof. Robert Crawford: Are you challenging me, Mr. Wallace? 
Jamal: Not any more than you challenged Coleridge.

— Finding Forrester (2000), written by Mike Rich

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Teacher. Today’s suggestion by @pauldecesare41.

Trivia: During filming, it was discovered that Sir Sean Connery could not type. When you see Forrester’s hands on the keys, they are someone else’s hands.

Dialogue On Dialogue: And then there are bad teachers.