Trebell Monologue from Waste: A Tragedy, In Four Acts

From Waste: A Tragedy, In Four Acts by Harley Granville-Barker

male · philosophical · 1:03 min

(Not to be put down either.) That's what we irreligious people are giving our lives to discover. (He plunges into detail.) I'm proposing to found about seventy-two new colleges, and of course, to bring the ones there are up to the new standard. Then we must gradually revise all teaching salaries in government schools... to a scale I have in mind. Then the course must be compulsory and the training time doubled-- (CANTELUPE: Doubled! Four years?) Well, a minimum of three... a university course. Remember we're turning a trade into a calling. (CANTELUPE: There's more to that than taking a degree.) I think so. You've fought for years for your tests and your atmosphere with plain business men not able to understand such lunacy. Quite right... atmosphere's all that matters. If one and one don't make two by God's grace....

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