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Started by pedanticromantic, January 19, 2022, 05:12:10 PM

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apl68

Quote from: Parasaurolophus on January 20, 2022, 11:14:12 AM
There's The Girl With All the Gifts... it's a bleak zombie movie, but the teacher makes a big difference.

The first half of the anime series School Live is similar.  It's the only zombie story I've ever watched, but I gather it's pretty tame and hopeful compared to most. 

Although if you're prepared to watch anime and want something more feel-good Azumanga Daioh might be better.  The main teachers spotlighted are more often comically bad than inspirational, but the overall view of school is fairly upbeat.
See, your King is coming to you, just and bringing salvation, gentle and lowly, and riding upon a donkey.

marshwiggle

Quote from: pedanticromantic on January 20, 2022, 10:02:46 AM

I want to watch movies about teachers who love what they're doing and make a difference, even if I feel those days are long gone.  Maybe I will be inspired. Maybe I won't.

I just want to point out that in all of those movies, not only the instructors but the students are fictional. So even the efforts of those fictional teachers might not get the same response from real students.
It takes so little to be above average.

mamselle

Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

Reprove not a scorner, lest they hate thee: rebuke the wise, and they will love thee.

Give instruction to the wise, and they will be yet wiser: teach the just, and they will increase in learning.

sinenomine

For a miniseries, To Serve Them All my Days — or the book of the same title (by R.F. Delderfield).
"How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks...."

mamselle

I loved that series!!

The Welsh instructor was so thoughtful.

Thanks for the reminder.

M.
Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

Reprove not a scorner, lest they hate thee: rebuke the wise, and they will love thee.

Give instruction to the wise, and they will be yet wiser: teach the just, and they will increase in learning.

Diogenes

If you are into dark and crass humor, the South Park episode making fun of the savior teacher movies is pretty hilarious https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1213538/


cathwen

If you speak/understand French and/or don't mind subtitles, Les Choristes (The Chorus) revolves around a music teacher in a school for difficult boys.  It was nominated for Best Foreign Film in 2004.

apl68

Goodbye Mr. Chips!  How could we have forgotten that one?
See, your King is coming to you, just and bringing salvation, gentle and lowly, and riding upon a donkey.

mamselle

Oh, yes! Les Choristes,  I enjoy the group's concerts, also (sadly they've disbanded due to lack of funding:

   https://youtu.be/cQSTAhXR3Ko

and

   https://youtu.be/tZ_xhQlLn50

And ditto《 Etre et Avoir》(To Be and to Have): UK version is translated, I think: 

   https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Be_and_to_Have

and

   https://youtu.be/272EHggKWEo
   
After it won several awards, there were some legal actions by the participants (just to be transparent).

But the cinematography in both, as well as the sense of the ephemeral, one might almost say spiritual values,  in education, is amazing.

There is a sense of the ultimate in the caring engagement with willing young minds and hearts that lies not too deeply buried under the heart of both films.

M.
Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

Reprove not a scorner, lest they hate thee: rebuke the wise, and they will love thee.

Give instruction to the wise, and they will be yet wiser: teach the just, and they will increase in learning.

cathwen


apl68

Quote from: mamselle on January 21, 2022, 07:58:32 AM
Oh, yes! Les Choristes,  I enjoy the group's concerts, also (sadly they've disbanded due to lack of funding:

   https://youtu.be/cQSTAhXR3Ko

and

   https://youtu.be/tZ_xhQlLn50

And ditto《 Etre et Avoir》(To Be and to Have): UK version is translated, I think: 

   https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Be_and_to_Have

and

   https://youtu.be/272EHggKWEo
   
After it won several awards, there were some legal actions by the participants (just to be transparent).

But the cinematography in both, as well as the sense of the ephemeral, one might almost say spiritual values,  in education, is amazing.

There is a sense of the ultimate in the caring engagement with willing young minds and hearts that lies not too deeply buried under the heart of both films.

M.

But maybe not Les Quatres Cents Coups, huh?
See, your King is coming to you, just and bringing salvation, gentle and lowly, and riding upon a donkey.

mamselle

Ah, non...

Ceci-la n'est pas du tout le meme chose....

M.
Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

Reprove not a scorner, lest they hate thee: rebuke the wise, and they will love thee.

Give instruction to the wise, and they will be yet wiser: teach the just, and they will increase in learning.