An Education (memoir by Lynn Barber) (movie directed by Lone Scherfig)
An Education is a 2009 British film set in the 1960’s in London, England.
This drama is based off of Lynn Barber’s groundbreaking memoir, inspired
by her life experiences. Director, Lone Scherfig creates Jenny, a brilliant, talented
16 year-old student with a strong desire to attend Oxford University.
Jenny’s dreams change when she meets David Goldman, a middle-aged,
very successful businessman. Jenny must choose between following her
dreams of attending Oxford, for an exceptional classroom education
or a life of endless opportunities with David.
The Memoir "My knowledge of the world was based on Shakespeare, Jane Austen, George Eliot and the Brontes, and none of them had a word to say about living on a kibbutz or making Molotov cocktails." - Lynn Barber
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"I had become used to my strange double life of schoolgirl swot during the week, restaurant-going, foreign-travelling sophisticate at weekends." - Lynn Barber
Experiential Learning vs. Classroom Learning
"We have been taught (that is, schooled) in this country to think of "success" as synonymous with, or at least dependent upon, "schooling", but historically that isn't true in either an intellectual or a financial sense. And plenty of people throughout that world today find a way to educate themselves without resorting to a system of compulsory secondary schools that all too often resemble prisons. Why, then, do Americans confuse education with just such a system? What exactly is the purpose of our public schools?" - John Taylor Gatto
To check out more writings by John Taylor Gatto, visit the link below!
John Taylor Gatto
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"School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned." - J.T.G.
"If we’re going to change what’s rapidly becoming a disaster of ignorance, we need to realize that the school institution "schools" very well, though it does not "educate"...It’s not the fault of bad teachers or too little money spent. It’s just impossible for education and schooling ever to be the same thing." - J.T.G.
"Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist; it should furnish you with an original spirit with which to tackle the big challenges; it should allow you to find values which will be your road map through life; it should make you spiritually rich, a person who loves whatever you are doing, wherever you are, whomever you are with; it should teach you what is important, how to live and how to die." - J.T.G.
Education or Experiences?
An Education (memoir by Lynn Barber) (movie directed by Lone Scherfig)
An Education is a 2009 British film set in the 1960’s in London, England.
This drama is based off of Lynn Barber’s groundbreaking memoir, inspired
by her life experiences. Director, Lone Scherfig creates Jenny, a brilliant, talented
16 year-old student with a strong desire to attend Oxford University.
Jenny’s dreams change when she meets David Goldman, a middle-aged,
very successful businessman. Jenny must choose between following her
dreams of attending Oxford, for an exceptional classroom education
or a life of endless opportunities with David.
The Memoir
"My knowledge of the world was based on Shakespeare, Jane Austen,
George Eliot and the Brontes, and none of them had a word to say
about living on a kibbutz or making Molotov cocktails."
- Lynn Barber
"I had become used to my strange double life of schoolgirl swot during the week,
restaurant-going, foreign-travelling sophisticate at weekends."
- Lynn Barber
Experiential Learning vs. Classroom Learning
"We have been taught (that is, schooled) in this country to think of "success" as synonymous with, or at least dependent upon, "schooling", but historically that isn't true in either an intellectual or a financial sense. And plenty of people throughout that world today find a way to educate themselves without resorting to a system of compulsory secondary schools that all too often resemble prisons. Why, then, do Americans confuse education with just such a system? What exactly is the purpose of our public schools?"
- John Taylor Gatto
To check out more writings by John Taylor Gatto, visit the link below!
John Taylor Gatto
"School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned." - J.T.G.
"If we’re going to change what’s rapidly becoming a disaster of ignorance, we need to
realize that the school institution "schools" very well, though it does not "educate"...It’s not the fault of bad teachers or
too little money spent. It’s just impossible for education and schooling ever to be the same thing." - J.T.G.
"Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist; it should furnish you with an original spirit with which to tackle the big challenges; it should allow you to find values which will be your road map through life; it should make you spiritually rich, a person who loves whatever you are doing, wherever you are, whomever you are with; it should teach you what is important, how to live and how to die." - J.T.G.
BIOGRAPHY OF JOHN TAYLOR GATTO
Acceptance Speech
Is College Worth the Cost?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdIaUIoPKhc
U.S. Department of Education
http://www.ed.gov/