Change the subject. In addition to the great movie, a question raised in the movie is also very interesting. Jenny's family comes from the middle and lower classes of society, and an Oxford university degree is a stepping stone to the rise of the social class for the whole family. Unlike the teenage girl's vision, father Jack made this point very clearly. During the conflict with the school principal played by Emma Thompson, in the course of the conversation with the English teacher Ms. Stubbs, the impulsive Jenny threw the question several times: "Why on earth should I study at Oxford?" If Just to catch a golden tortoise-in-law in the future, wouldn't it be easier to just go to a nightclub?
No one can answer this question.
As Helen, a beautiful woman with little connotation, pointed out, after 50 years no one will read Latin again, "even Latin people won't read Latin", what's the point of trying so hard to translate those Latin words? Just to get good grades at A-LEVEL?
This ultimate question can probably kill most educational theorists in seconds. Because at the end of the day, when people complain about boring courses and boring exams, there is another call for this education system, which is to maintain hierarchy, to maintain the division from elite colleges to vocational schools. Because this is the last weapon of the poor. I found the same phenomenon a year and a half ago when I read the history of American education. When mass education opened its doors from the privileges that only aristocrats and elites could enjoy to the broad middle and lower classes, it was strange that the masses of society were not demanding a complete revolution and reinventing a new system, but accepting and expanding this hierarchy. To a certain extent, the school just replicates the injustice of society, but compared with blood and money, people feel that test scores are more "fair".
But in fact, anyone who has played this game knows that this is not the case at all.
Compared with the old topic that young girls are always fascinated by older attractive men, watching Jenny ponder this question is even more interesting. She said "I feel like old... but not wise" probably the most sophisticated answer. It's just that the answer to this question is not personal. Smart people can always find a way to get through the system, like at the end of the movie, but the solution is not so obvious.
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