The so-called private schools are actually not as glamorous as they appear on the surface. Everyone always thinks that China's education is rigid, but the principals of private schools will also delete physical education classes and reduce public classes in order to compete for the online rate of famous schools; it is not only comprehensive and balanced. There are also those who focus on exams in order to get all A's and ignore content and study skills; when students hear that teachers have graduated from Sheffield University, they will despise them without any scruples, and when they see teachers graduating from Cambridge, they are respectful. Because he will be his senior...
In my opinion, the origin of the whole film is caused by a conversation between Mr. Irwin and the boys,
Irwin: These papers are not bad, just boring, they have no hope in the eyes of the reviewers .
Boys: So what are we doing all this for?
Irwin: I don't know, you tell me. You want to go to Oxford, your parents want you to go, of course the headmaster wants to go, but me? I don't want to waste money, I'll be happy when I go to Newcastle University...
Throughout the movie, Hector and Irwin represent two very different educational philosophies, Irwin is a new teacher who comes to develop students' exam skills, although the teaching method It is very trendy, and it also strongly advocates students to think independently, but there is only one goal, that is, to make students admitted to Oxbridge; but Hector with silver hair is different. He teaches French, poetry and other seemingly useless content in exams. , he always said that these children are a bit sad, because they only know how to pursue famous schools, and only know how to recite poems to quote in exams, but they never know how to appreciate their beautiful rhythms, and how to apply them to life to appreciate its beauty . During a class discussion, Hector and the boys got into an argument:
Hector: Do something real and read!
Boys: That's what we're talking about, too late to read! Can't you just make a point for us, like Mr. Irwin? With an outline, we can pretend.
Hector: Pretend?
Boys: Yes, that's what exams are for!
Hector: Can you stop talking about exams and shut up!
When the principal fired Hector, he said to others: It is not that he did not teach well, but his work is not quantifiable. In the current educational environment, it is useless, and I cannot evaluate his work. I'd rather be glad that he was sued for sexual harassment so I could find a clear reason for firing him.
This movie is to bring out the dark side of the seemingly perfect education system, remove the glitzy decorations about the education system in advertising, and nakedly show the ugly reality. In the film, Rudge has always been a very special character, because he is not like other boys who go to great lengths to write words that he does not agree with for exams, his definition of history is "one after another He likes sports and thinks that his advantage can be recognized by college interviewers, but the high school principal doesn't like him and thinks he's just a dragging child until the offer comes down:
Rudge: I'm accepted.
Dorothy: How is that possible?
Rudge: How could they possibly want a guy like me? I have a relationship.
Dorothy: Does anyone in your family go to Christ Church?
Rudge: Because of my father, who worked at Oxford before we got married, the old guy sitting in the interviewer's seat suddenly asked me what I had to do with Bill Rudge, and I said he was my father, and they said I was exactly what they wanted Look, I didn't say Stalin was nice like the others, Wilfred Owen was a coward or something, and the interviewer said I had a clear mind and the football team needed me.
Dorothy: Accepted, aren't you happy?
Rudge: It's not like winning a football game, nothing to be happy about, you know what, teacher, I just do what I like.
How ironic, the reality is that these history boys who are about to enter Oxford University will become tax lawyers, architects, government officials, businessmen, and journalists ten years later. Only Posner has become a history teacher, continuing the mantle of Hector and Irwin. ... They have long forgotten the historical knowledge they memorized by rote in order to enter the famous school, but it is that knowledge that allows them to enter the famous school and have a good starting point to start chasing their real dreams, oh, the word dream is too big, chase yourself The life you really want. So, should schools impart knowledge, or impart...? This is something Hector has struggled with throughout his teaching career.
Before Hector's death, he said to Irwin: "I don't want to cultivate such a group of people who will later say that they love literature deeply, or that they won't wake up to their love for literature and poetry until middle age..." After his death, Irwin When recalling him, he said: He was a good man, but now there is no room for his kind of education. Is this mourning, or a futile retention?
Frankly speaking, this is a film that is too difficult to write a film review. There are so many things. Although I have seen the film 4 or 5 times, I am still not enough to describe it in terms of the education system. In fact, the film Leave more open space for people to think. If you still need an ending, take this sentence: "Brotherhood, this is the only education worth receiving."
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