| “ | Return to your desk, please. | „ |
| ~ The Academy Teacher's last words by ordering the Little Girl to return to her desk, before he is sent to the machine by the Little Prince, who began to recover his memories. |
The Academy Teacher is a major antagonist of the 2015 Netflix animated movie The Little Prince.
He is a slim, tall, and deceptive teacher who operates an "Academy", a place where children are transformed into workaholic adults.
He was voiced by Paul Giamatti, who also played Chairman Drek in Ratchet & Clank, Stan Beals in The Ant Bully, Rhino in The Amazing Spider-Man, and Beauty Smith in White Fang.
Appearance[]
He has a pale complexion and dark hair. He also wears a black suit, a white shirt, a black tie, and glasses, like some businessmen. It is presumed that he is taller than the average adult male, compared to the Little Girl and the Little Prince.
Personality[]
The Academy Teacher is polite, articulate, confident, and impeccably formal,.as he speaks in the measured tone of someone convinced of his professionalism, and every sentence sounds rehearsed, like he’s delivering company policy rather than thought at first, but in reality, he's emotionally sterile, authoritarian, and deeply insecure, as his sense of power comes from enforcing a system that doesn’t love him back, and he hides behind procedure because he has no self left outside it.
History[]
When Mr. Prince brings the Girl to the Academy, she is placed under the Teacher’s control. He guides her toward an emotionless adulthood, presenting “The Essential Guide to Everything Essential” —a thick, single-spaced manual that defines what is “important.” He commands her to read it endlessly, until she becomes old—though he assures her that at the Academy, they use a “more accelerated approach to growing up.” The Teacher’s true nature is revealed when he tries to force compliance through technology. When Mr. Prince, still lost in amnesia, notices the Girl’s drawings—including the box that once contained his sheep—the Teacher blocks his way. But as the Girl’s fox companion helps free her from the machine, Mr. Prince’s memories resurface. He defies the Teacher, reclaiming his childlike wonder. The Teacher lunges to restore control, yet the machine—now under Mr. Prince’s influence—turns against him. Its mechanical arms seize the Teacher, shoving him into the same desk once meant for the Girl. A camera flashes, capturing his terrified expression before he’s pulled into the centralization process—his screams muffled as the machine “graduates” him into yet another faceless adult.
Quotes[]
| “ | Those blank eyes... You've forgotten everything, haven't you? (laughing evilly) Now you're just going to feel a slight pinch. Just relax. | „ |
| ~ The Academy Teacher using the machine to force the Little Girl to do the paperwork for him. |
| “ | I’m trying to help you. You’re going to make a wonderful grown-up. | „ |
| ~ The Academy Teacher, as he's almost centralizing the Little Girl. |
| “ | Leave them! I said, leave them! Act your age, Mr. Prince! Remember, you are a graduate of my class. | „ |
| ~ The Aczdemy Teacher preventing Mr. Prince from seeing the drawings. |
| “ | Huh?! STOP! What do you think you're doing?! | „ |
| ~ The Academy Teacher as he realizes the Little Girl escaped the centralization process. |
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