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Juanito Peláez
Father Millón is a Dominican friar and Plácido Penitente’s physics instructor. A cruel and vindictive teacher, Millón enjoys embarrassing his students with difficult questions he has not taught them how to answer. Millón’s sense of intellectual superiority is highly ironic, as he does not even entirely believe in what he is teaching, as he still harbors doubts about heliocentrism and other basic theories of modern physics.
Father Millón Quotes in El Filibusterismo
The El Filibusterismo quotes below are all either spoken by Father Millón or refer to Father Millón. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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13. The Physics Class
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Just like the thousands and thousands of students who preceded them, those two hundred and thirty-four suffered through those hours of class. And if things don’t change, the same thing will happen with those to come. They’ll get brutish and stupid. Their wounded dignity and vitiated youthful enthusiasm will turn into hatred and indolence, like waves on certain areas of a beach that end up murky, merely breaking one after another and leaving behind nothing but a great sediment of waste.
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Father Millón Quotes in El Filibusterismo
The El Filibusterismo quotes below are all either spoken by Father Millón or refer to Father Millón. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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13. The Physics Class
Quotes
Just like the thousands and thousands of students who preceded them, those two hundred and thirty-four suffered through those hours of class. And if things don’t change, the same thing will happen with those to come. They’ll get brutish and stupid. Their wounded dignity and vitiated youthful enthusiasm will turn into hatred and indolence, like waves on certain areas of a beach that end up murky, merely breaking one after another and leaving behind nothing but a great sediment of waste.
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