Can we have such students

Kasey 2022-03-25 09:01:09

The film is based on real events.
Will something like this happen in China? Just imagine, in China's high schools, the goal of students is to take the college entrance examination for college entrance examinations. In order to increase the rate of admission, the school tries its best to make students become experts in examinations. In order for their children to be admitted to a good university, how can parents let their children focus on doing experiments, and it has nothing to do with exams. What does our school teach students? A principal once said bluntly at the teachers' conference: What our teachers teach students is to teach students how to take exams!
Although Homer encountered all kinds of obstacles in chasing his dreams, and was constantly denied and ridiculed, his mother always encouraged and supported him, as did his teachers. The people in the town did their best to help him. he.
No one will pay attention to what happened behind Homer when he won the medal. Whatever you are interested in, stick to it. Reminds me of the classical interpretation of interest: interest is not the thing that makes you feel comfortable and get the result successfully; interest is the thing that makes you think painfully during the day, sleep well at night, get up at five in the morning and smile wryly Curse the mother while grinning. That's what interest is like . In the
movie, Homer's classmate Quentin Wilson worked with him to make rockets. If Homer didn't lead him to rocket research, I don't know what Quentin Wilson's life would have been like. He, who felt sad, was in an embarrassed family situation, wore glasses, looked weak, was isolated by his classmates, and immersed himself in reading. Fortunately, he faced the judgment of the outside world calmly. If he hadn't studied rockets, he wouldn't have been able to get a scholarship to enter a university. After graduating from high school, he would dig coal in a mine. At the end of the film, the subtitle prompts Quentin Wilson to become an engineer in the oil industry after graduating from college, and his fate is rewritten.

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October Sky quotes

  • Roy Lee: I'll tell you what's unbelievable... captain of the football team being jealous of you.

  • Principal Turner: Miss Riley, our job is to give these kids an education.

    Miss Riley: Mmm-hmm.

    Principal Turner: Not false hopes.

    Miss Riley: False hopes? Do you want me to sit quiet, let 'em breathe in coal dust the rest of their life?

    Principal Turner: Miss Riley, once in a while... a lucky one... will get out on a football scholarship. The rest of 'em work in the mines.

    Miss Riley: How 'bout I believe in the unlucky ones? Hmm? I have to, Mister Turner, I'd go out of my mind.