What Difference Will Your Life Make?

John and I brought home a movie from the library last week on our anniversary, and just made time to watch it last night when I he got home from a meeting. It's called The Emperor's Club. (I would recommend seeing it before reading about it.)

The cover said it was "inspiring".

If a movie/book about a dog is "inspiring", it seems the dogs often die:
[I removed this list, in case anyone has not seen the movies/read the books I mentioned, and posted it in the "Comment" section, in case you do care to see the list.]

If a movie about a person is "inspiring", I wonder if a character might get cancer and die.
Not in this movie.
He is a teacher of western civilization at a boys' academy (and is played by Kevin Kline).
Main themes are integrity and hope.

John and I would watch it again (and would study it), and we recommend it!

The teacher teaches:
"Great ambition and conquest without contribution is without significance.
What will your contribution be?
How will history remember you?"