How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Good Will Hunting.
Quote #4
LAMBEAU: And he lived in this tiny hut somewhere in India, but he had no formal education.
One of Lambeau's biggest intellectual heroes is a man who lived in rural India and had no formal education. As a professor, Lambeau knows that education is extremely important to 99% of people. But there is always that small percent who are just naturally gifted no matter how much education they've had.
Quote #5
MAGUIRE: Right. My dad laid brick. Okay? Busted his ass so I could have an education.
Maguire isn't knocking manual labor as a profession. After all, his father laid brick so he could go to school. But he's pretty skeptical about the idea that this is really what Will wants to do with all his intelligence.
Quote #6
MAGUIRE: You could be a janitor anywhere. Why did you work at the most prestigious technical college in the whole f***in' world? And why did you sneak around at night and finish other people's formulas that only one or two people in the world could do, and then lie about it?
Maguire rightly challenges Will on his desire to just be a manual laborer for the rest of his life. He knows that somewhere inside Will there's a hunger to set his intelligence loose. That's why, of all places, Will chose to become a janitor at MIT and spend his spare time solving math problems.