MacGyver (TV Series)

Live and Learn (1990)

James Sloyan: George Fraley

Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  George Fraley : Ah, maybe he could use a tutor to help him get started.

  MacGyver : You've got somebody in mind, George?

  George Fraley : Yeah. I just might. Somebody who's getting excited about education again.

• George Fraley : You think you're so idealisitic? When I started teaching, I was Albert Schweitzer, Martin Luther King, Bobby Kennedy all rolled into one! Full of innovative ideas. Excited about turning kids onto their own potential. Race, colour, poverty, the drug scene - they weren't a problem, I had all the answers!

  MacGyver : What happened?

  George Fraley : What happened? this is what happened - I had one drawer, and a desk I had to share with two other teachers. No homeroom of my own. Fourtyfive kids in a class! Not enough textbooks to go around. A day that starts with 20% teaching and 80% just trying to keep order! Two thousand bucks in the bank, and a mortgage that won't quit!

  MacGyver : You saying it's not worth it?

  George Fraley : All I'm saying is I'm your average overworked, underpaid, underappreciated teacher whose biggest thrill is to discover a senior who could find Washington DC on a map, and spell the word "necessary"! And I was going to change the world...