Korean Drama Quotes

Title: 여왕의 교실 / The Queen’s Classroom

Broadcast period: 2013-June-12 to 2013-Aug-01
Main Cast: Ko Hyun Jung

Quotes from Korean drama Queen's Classroom (2013)

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Teacher Ma Yeo Jin: In real life, when you meet an opponent that's stronger than you, rather than fighting, running away is the best method.
Teacher Yang Min Hee: What if you can't run away? Then what should you do?
Teacher Ma Yeo Jin: Fighting won't help, running away won't help, then surrender. Complying with the opponent and giving him what he wants. Begging for your life to be spared and staying alive more than anything else. In reality, that's the best and last self-protection method.

If you want to avoid being an outcast, you have to make yourself stronger, but if it was that easy, who would be an outcast? If you can't become stronger, standing next to a strong person is also wise.

Teacher Ma Yeo Jin

Not all questions in the world have correct answers like exam questions. But then you don't have to give an answer on time like you do with the exam questions. So take your time and think carefully. Then do as your heart tells you.

Principal Yong

Discrimination is a fact of life. People with money and power get better treatment, it's the rule of this world that you live in.

Teacher Ma Yeo Jin

If you just follow the paths of others, you'll just end up in a common place. However, if you decide where you want to go and try hard to reach there, you can make your own path.

Principal Yong

Instead of finding questions for other people, you're supposed to find questions for yourself that are important to you. There'll be a lot of times in your life when you're confused and hesitant. Are you going to find someone and ask them then? Are you going to ask them to give you an answer? Think of it yourself and make your own judgment, and take responsibility for your choice.
Even if your answer now is wrong, even if you're going to lose something precious to you now, you can't be scared.

Teacher Ma Yeo Jin

Kim Seo Hyun: You taught us that studying to make money or getting ahead in society, has no meaning. Then, why do we have to study?
Teacher Ma Yeo Jin: Studying is not something you have to do, studying is something you get to do. When a child is just born, it will be faced with all sorts of interesting stuff in this world. Who is this person holding me in her arms? What are those things glittering in front of my eyes? As the child starts to learn everything one by one, the child will learn how to say, "Mommy.", and start learning to play with toys. This process of learning and figuring out is the studying. Studying is not only in textbooks. Studying is also not for taking tests. Pure curiosity about the world, that every human has the process of resolving that curiosity, is what studying is. So, a good college or a good job cannot be the purpose of studying. Exams and scores also cannot be the only result of studying. You may think that studying is an obligation you don't like to do, but studying the highest privilege only humans are entitled to.

Eun Bo Mi: Why do you always treat us so strictly? Honestly, I've thought many times that you torture us a lot. Please tell us the reason.
Teacher Ma Yeo Jin: It's because the world like in a fairy tale doesn't exist. In the world you'll have to live, a nice person will be unfairly treated and poor. Even though you do a bad thing, if you're on the side of the strong person, you'll get reward instead of punishment.
Once you become adults, you'll have to fight things much more severe than what I have done. At each moment of that, the choice will be yours. But, the consequences of that also will return to you.

You are not living in yesterday or tomorrow. It's only today. That's the time you have right now. Whenever you feel uneasy, feel how alive you are. If you close your eyes, the wind blowing in, if you put your hand on your chest, your heart beats, and if you listen, you'll hear your friends' laughters. Because of fear for the future, don't do a foolish thing like giving up the precious things given to you today.

Teacher Ma Yeo Jin

Teacher Yang Min Hee: Why did you choose teaching as your mission?
Teacher Ma Yeo Jin: It is because the kids make miracles. The teacher is only a guide. The kids who found out their own paths change their lives and the world, for the better.