Though an alumni of the school, he refuses to conform and begins his tenure by taking the boys to the hall of fame, showing them students of ages past, making them aware of the fact that many brilliant young men have passed through these halls, bright-eyed and invincible, never to fulfill their destiny. He gradually wins over the students as he leads them to see literature not for stale classics but as words to capture the zest of life and nourish their soul, by first ripping out the introduction of their textbooks outlining a misguided way to “scientifically” grade works of literature according to a fixed scale plotted along a graph.