To experience the actual benefits of education, it is really difficult through our normal degree of opinion. Thus, some of the movies brilliantly portrait the real benefits of training. Here are 15 movies that narrate some of the challenges confronted by teachers and pupils in the field of education. All these amazing movies help you to understand a lot about education.

1. Education-based
Movies

2. oBe it providing education or receiving it, the task isn’t easy at it
seems. It requires a lot of effort and energy.
oThere 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.
oThere are some other issues that are solely confined to teachers
or students. Hence, it is very difficult to understand for people
outside the circle.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 7. Mr. Holland’s Opus (1995)
Director Stephen Herek brilliantly
portrays the harsh realities related to
teaching in his movie, ‘Mr. Holland’s
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.

10. 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 boy’s
dream skyward instead of it being
buried in a mine.
Actor Jake Gyllenhaal portrayed the
character of Homer Hickam.

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. 13. Freedom Writers (2007)
This movie proves that education isn’t
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.

16. 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.
 Ishaan’s art teacher Ram Shankar
Nikumbh, suspects that Ishaan is
suffering from dyslexia and helps
Ishaan overcome his disability.

17. 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.

18. 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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