As a former teacher of a small and micro school outside the system, I couldn't wait to find this movie after seeing the recommendation of Mustard Dui.
I feel that the practices of some schools and homeschools outside the system are somewhat similar to this angry young father: they pay too much attention to book knowledge and ignore children's emotions and social relationships, and let children memorize content they should not know and do some inappropriate behaviors. Many educators outside the system criticize traditional indoctrination education, but in the process of founding schools, they can easily become tyrants themselves: ignoring children’s emotions, forcing children to learn courses that they are not interested in, and dividing children’s learning process , learning progress is strictly monitored...
At the end of the film, the children have more understanding and respect for their father, and cremated her body according to the mother's last wish; while the father also reflected, and took the children out of the forest and sent them to ordinary schools. I think the filmmaker has some understanding and respect for this father.
Back to the topic of education, I feel that in China, outside the system educators only have some behaviors that do not conform to the law of children's growth. In addition to their biased quality and understanding of education, the deeper level is caused by policies. The state does not allow private schools to be run, nor does it allow the attempts of various forms of education, resulting in a shortage of students, and it is difficult for both the school and the parents to unite to carry out educational exploration openly, and it is difficult to introduce intellectual resources such as educational experts. As a result, education outside the system is always in a very marginal area, and it is difficult to develop.
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