I have been seeing a lot of movies..over the past 3 months.. but two of them 'Freedom Writers' and 'Great Debaters' have taught me how to teach Toughness... especially the kind of toughness you have to teach an young team when it requires to get into a place where everybody would think they are kids...they are wrong.. they can't do it.. , and you have to keep them from running away or panicking, and make them stand to failures, expectations and deliver.
In a different perception, those movies can make you tougher if you relate yourself in to the characters of the students rather than the teacher characters I related myself to in both the films.
Both the movies are real-life based stories.. and as far as I have read, they have not exaggerated the story to make it good for the movies.. but may have in-turn been unable to bring everything that happened in real lives of the people involved into the movie format.
I cried when Hilary swank cried..
I smiled when Denzel washington smiled.
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When the movies got over.. I was amazed at the presentation of them, and what changes such great movies could bring if they were shown to children and teachers all around the globe...
and then..
google tells me that the movies have already inspired people all around, and you could spend a day or two reading so much of the good changes the movies had already created.. organizations, funds for education, better teachers.. etc., all in america of-course.. and since both films talk about racism, black-white problems, you would see how they have helped the american culture. Like the 'Freedom Writers Foundation', something that has become immensely popular after the movie on Freedom Writers.
If you like teaching/mentoring, and you haven't watched either of the movies, I bet you should.
Because these are not just movies, they are powerful movies.
