Serling accepted a teaching post there after completing this script. The quote Professor Fowler reads on the statue's plinth, "Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity", is the motto of Rod Serling's alma mater Antioch College, and was spoken by its first president Horace Mann at the college's first commencement. A very small scholastic lesson, from the campus of the Twilight Zone.ĭonald Pleasence was heavily made up to appear much older than his actual age of 42. Its why the critiques of modern 'Twilight Zone' being too preachy also falls a little flat, because lets face it: the original show was extremely preachy to anyone who understands subtext. Watch The Twilight Zone: S3 E37 The Changing. Professor Ellis Fowler, teacher, who discovered rather belatedly something of his own value. Professor Fowler, a well-liked teacher at a boys school, is asked by the trustees to end his teaching career. Now accepting of his retirement, content that his life is fuller for having enriched the lives of the boys, he listens to his current students caroling outside his home. Moved to tears, Fowler hears the phantom bell again, and his former pupils disappear. One posthumously received the Medal of Honor for actions at Iwo Jima another died of leukemia after exposure to X-Rays during research into cancer treatments another died at Pearl Harbor after saving 12 other men. The boys tell him of how he inspired them to become better men, and the difference he made in their lives. Looking through his old yearbooks and reminiscing about his former students, he becomes convinced that all of his lessons have been in vain and that he has accomplished nothing with his life.ĭeeply depressed, he prepares to kill himself on the night of Christmas Eve next to a statue of the famous educator Horace Mann, with its quote "Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity." Before he can follow through, however, he is called back to his classroom by a phantom bell, where he is visited by ghosts of several boys who were his students, all dead, several of whom died heroically. Each guard is a soldier in the Household Division, the part of the miliary charged with guarding and serving the Sovereign. The ceremony allows the old guard to leave their posts and installs the new guard in place. Professor Ellis Fowler is an elderly English literature teacher at the Rock Spring School, a boys' prep school in Vermont, who is forced into retirement after teaching for 51 years at the school. Held daily at Buckingham Palace, the Changing of the Guard is a popular attraction for tourists visiting London. Professor Ellis Fowler, a gentle, bookish guide to the young, who is about to discover that life still has certain surprises, and that the campus of the Rock Spring School for Boys lies on a direct path to another institution, commonly referred to as the Twilight Zone.
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