15 Popular Movies that Highlight the Power of Education

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Education-based Movies
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• Be it providing education or receiving it, the
  task isnt easy at it seems. It requires a lot of
  effort and energy.
• There may be various elements to tackle in
  between to earn real benefits out of education.
  Bullying, racism, inequality etc. are some social
  issues that the providers and the students have
  to face in common.
• There are some other issues that are solely
  confined to teachers or students. Hence, it is
  very difficult to understand for people outside
  the circle.

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1. To Sir, With Love (1967)

• Released in 1967,
• this movie highlighted racial and social issues.
• To Sir, with Love narrates the story of Mark
  Thackarey, a former engineer,
• who begins his career in teaching at an area with
  low standard of living in London.
• Actor Sidney Poitier portrayed the role of Mark
  Thackarey in this feel good movie.

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2. Educating Rita (1983)

• Educating Rita is all about self-discovery and
  the power to choose, that comes through
  education.
• The movie narrates how the life of a young wife
  Rita (played by actress Julie Walters) transforms
  when she comes in contact with Frank Bryant, her
  assigned Open University professor after deciding
  to complete her education.
• Mr. Bryant happens to inspires her and teaches
  her to value her own thoughts.

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3. The Breakfast Club (1985)

• A bit different from the usual teacher-student
  movie,
• The Breakfast Club tells the story of five
  students, each belonging to a different high
  school group, who happen to come together during
  a Saturday detention and connect to each other.
• The movie successfully portrays the interaction
  between students in an education system.

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4. Stand and Deliver (1988)

• This 1988 movie revolves around a high school
  maths teacher, Jaime Escalante, who leaves his
  highly-paid job to take up teaching.
• Stand and Deliver narrates how Mr. Escalante
  motivates his undisciplined and rebellious bunch
  of students to excel in academics while
  overcoming various hurdles.
• The movie is based on a true story and the
  character Jaime Escalante is for real. In the
  movie, actor Edward James Olmos played the role
  of the teacher, Jaime Escalante.

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5. Dead Poets Society (1989)

• This classic film tells the story of a teacher
  who motivates his students the break out of their
  normal lives to seize the day and to be extra
  ordinary.
• Late actor Robin Williams played the role of John
  Keating, the free-spirited, understanding and
  inspiring teacher, every student wishes to have.
• The movie Dead Poets Society and the character
  John Keating has been inspiring students for many
  years.

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6. School Ties(1992)

• Released in 1992.
• Director Robert Mandel brilliantly portrays the
  movie
• Fraser plays the lead part as David Greene, a
  Jewish high school pupil who is granted an
  athletic scholarship in his senior year.

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7. Mr. Hollands Opus (1995)

• Director Stephen Herek brilliantly portrays the
  harsh realities related to teaching in his movie,
  Mr. Hollands Opus.
• The movie is about Glenn Holland, a music
  composer who is forced to take up the job of a
  high school music teacher to pay his bills, who
  later discovers the impact he made on his
  students.
• Actor Richard Dreyfuss portrayed the role of Mr.
  Holland in the movie packed with touching scenes
  that can leave you with a lump in your throat.

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8. October Sky(1999)

• Released in 1999
• The prize winning film is grounded on a real
  tale.
• The movie narrates how the spirit of a coal
  miner's son who was prompted by the first Sputnik
  launch to take up rocketry against his father's
  wishes.
• A teacher who helped found the boys dream
  skyward instead of it being buried in a mine.
• Actor Jake Gyllenhaal portrayed the character of
  Homer Hickam.

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9. Music of the Heart (1999)

• Director Wes Craven brilliantly portrays the
  Story of a schoolteacher's struggle to teach
  violin to inner-city Harlem kids.
• The film is about Roberta Guaspari, who raises
  her small town moved to East Harlem to give kids
  the hope, pride and power to build something of
  themselves with the most unlikely tool - fifty
  violins.
• Actress Meryl Streep took on the part of Roberta
  Guaspari

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10.To Be and to Have(2002)

• A documentary portrait of a single-room
  schoolhouse in rural France, where the students
  (ranging in age from 4 to 11) are educated by a
  single dedicated teacher.
• Georges Lopez as the single dedicated teacher

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11. Chalk (2006)

• The fictional documentary, Chalk, narrates the
  challenges and problems that four teachers endure
  over the course of an academic year.
• Some moments of the documentary make you laugh,
  while others make you think as it honestly
  depicts the real hardships one has to face in one
  of the most respected professions-teaching.

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12. Half Nelson (2006)

• More than a student-teacher story, Half Nelson
  explores race and class issues and friendship.
• In the movie, Ryan Gosling plays Dan Dunne, a
  high school teacher, with a unique teaching
  style,
• who is otherwise, a drug-addict. Mr. Dunne is
  forced to be friends with one of his students,
  when she finds out his secret.

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13. Freedom Writers (2007)

• This movie proves that education isnt something
  that is merely confined to the four walls of a
  classroom, but beyond that.
• In the movie, actress Hillary Swank plays Erin
  Gruwell, a teacher who motivates her rebellious
  and underprivileged students to improve in terms
  of academics and behavior by asking them to
  maintain journals about their lives.

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14. Tare Zameen Par(Like stars on Earth) (2009)

• This Indian movie, which comes with a tagline,
  Every child is special gives a new definition
  to education.
• Tare Zameen Par narrates the story of Ishaan
  Awasti, who is good at art but fares poorly when
  it comes to academics.
• Ishaans art teacher Ram Shankar Nikumbh,
  suspects that Ishaan is suffering from dyslexia
  and helps Ishaan overcome his disability.

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15. Precious (2009)

• This movie about an illiterate and obese girl
  explains the importance of education.
• Actress Gabourey Sidibe plays the role of
  16-year-old Claireece Precious Jones, who is
  physically and mentally abused by her mother and
  is sexually abused by her father.
• Precious Jones later enrolls in an alternative
  school and certain incidents inspire her to have
  a new outlook of life.

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• All these amazing movies help you to understand a
  lot about education.
• They might help you to provide better education
  to students.
• And for that to happen in an easier way, you can
  embrace technology.
• There are solutions such as RFID Student Tracking
  System, GPS Vehicle Tracking System, Parent
  portal and smart cards for schools that can be
  quite effective.

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