Friday, January 16, 2015

The Miracle Worker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZeoJOcLYdU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfr6YO-zLZc&spfreload=10
This is the story of how a very dedicated teacher
succeeds in teaching a blind and deaf girl to communicate
with normal people with the spoken language.
This is a must see for everyone involved with education.
It is proof that humans can be educated as long as alternative effective methods
other than conventional teaching methods are deployed.It takes a lot
of thinking out of the box and sheer hard work and patience.
This story must be what inspired many modern teaching methods.

To Sir With Love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqS8VuC7egQ

A must watch movie for anyone involved with education.
A British schoolteacher faced with unmotivated,rough and socially
deprived students from the ghetto,shifts attention from dry academic studies
to more attention on social issues and living skills.By engaging with
kids and trying to understand and correct them instead of force feeding them
with academic gobbledygook he manages to give the underprivileged kids
a break and an alternative to work on.A bit of "Hard Times" by Charles Dickens.
This must be the thinking behind holistic education emphasised on nowadays.
Of course it would be a disaster to produce kids with no marketable skills but
given no hopers to educate, at least eventually they would be able to co-exist peacefully in society with their more intelligent contemporaries and find their niche in society instead of ending up as social outcasts.   

Monday, January 12, 2015

1966 Shaw Movie-The Joy of Spring-歡樂青春

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVQU0zSeauM

A Shaw Brother's musical from 1966/67.Story about teenage schoolgirls
and their battle for personal freedom in school and fighting over boyfriends after school.
Stars Chin Han,Chin Ping,Chiao Chuang,Lydia Shum
and guest starring a who's who of Shaw Brother's movie stars during the study
trip to Shaw studios.
Not a great movie by any measure but provides a window into the
world of Shaw Brothers fraternity in the late 60s.
 Home into 17.00 of the video to watch Bei Lei's famous A-go-go
song of the 60s ie: 欢乐今宵 (Huan Le Jin Xiao) (Joyous Tonight)
Highly unlikely that this movie will ever be made into a DVD by Celestial
given the low commercial value and limited appeal and kitsch art form and scatter
brain mentality of the movie characters.