What is education? What is education for? How can I educate my students if I become a teacher?
That's the question I asked myself after watching Coach Carter.
This is a movie from more than a decade ago, the story is about basketball coach Carter while teaching basketball, but also requires players to achieve the grade point of cultural achievement. The reason is simple. He wants to change the fate of those high school basketball students who have a better chance of applying to college.
In order to allow students to improve their cultural GPA, after winning 14 consecutive games, Carter made a decision: he closed the training ground and required students to reach GPA before they could continue to play. This caused an uproar in the local area. The basketball players resisted and puzzled, and the principal and parents resisted.
In the film, the principal said something: For them, this memory of playing may be the highlight of a lifetime.
why? Because their students are all born in the lower-level neighborhoods and can't go to college, most of them will continue the fate of the previous generation: fighting, drug use, imprisonment, etc.
Movies made more than ten years ago, if you watch them more than ten years later, the focus of attention is already different.
More than ten years ago, watching this movie was bloody, the freedom, youth, parties, and even sex in American schools all conveyed a novel and free way of life to teenagers. . At that time our society was conservative, but it was infinitely impacted.
More than ten years later, the class gap, education status, and student mentality in the film are getting closer and closer to the current social status.
And all of this happened in just a few short years.
In fact, I think this movie should be watched more by current students. What is happiness education for?
Do not want to write, alas, sad.
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