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Learning is Suffocated by Arrogance from the Adult Leaders
This movie is a CLASSIC example of who the true leaders really are. It is not the ignorant and arrogant school board. It is not the town itself. This doc proves how new light outside has to come in to shine.
The two designers first are educated and skilled. You cannot impart what you do not first possess. These two have a big heart and head. They both could have easily made great livings in their respective professions, but there was something inside of them to give, almost like very educated Peace Corp workers or missionaries.
They took a depressive community and students that easily could be the next meth casualties and demonstrated how with knowledge, student can learn. The Greek learning model does not work shown by students in a classroom behind computers taking classes like Spanish and PE...PE using a computer.
The arrogant aspect to the school board is they have a position of power--how to use the 30 million dollars government gives to educate. Of course, educators fail with anything associated with money by building a failed elementary school that sat dormant after two years. Total waste of money but did they lose their positions? Probably not. But who sits in judgement of how to spend money? The same morons. Get the picture?
The brilliance of this movie is a new paradigm of learning. Yet is has to be taught be people who can actually DO...over the Greek model of book learning to take a test to pass a class with no real world application on how to actually think that matters. Both these teachers were never satisfied unless there was a finished product!
What these kids did was amazing...but people who do not do cannot appreciate others that do as seen by the failed Detroit house built. More proof handout do not work. Who are the worst kids ever? Trustfund babies. They have no ownership over the money they have and therefore can never appreciate t hat which they possess. Liberal funding does not work.
Lastly, note how alive these students were as the movie progressed over the first few days of skepticism and faithlessness. When hope was ignited, they took off. I have lived in a small town. Many times the parents do not want their kids to get educated because they will leave so they suppress education. They will never admit this of course. Then there are those who are threatened by progress. This is the antithesis of creativity. Not all progress is good progress. I am sure many will tink, "Great, my kid was taught how to design and build, now they will want to leave this town!" Yet some might want to invest in the town their families live in as well.
One thing I would have done with these students is before leaving encourage them to start their own business. Keep the unity developed because when the pack leaders go, the pack will stray like sheep.
Great documentary...this couple should be extremely proud of what they accomplished. Their maturity level is what America needs and this world! Those who give back, but they did much more, they taught the next generation and changed those kids lives through accomplishment.
The two designers first are educated and skilled. You cannot impart what you do not first possess. These two have a big heart and head. They both could have easily made great livings in their respective professions, but there was something inside of them to give, almost like very educated Peace Corp workers or missionaries.
They took a depressive community and students that easily could be the next meth casualties and demonstrated how with knowledge, student can learn. The Greek learning model does not work shown by students in a classroom behind computers taking classes like Spanish and PE...PE using a computer.
The arrogant aspect to the school board is they have a position of power--how to use the 30 million dollars government gives to educate. Of course, educators fail with anything associated with money by building a failed elementary school that sat dormant after two years. Total waste of money but did they lose their positions? Probably not. But who sits in judgement of how to spend money? The same morons. Get the picture?
The brilliance of this movie is a new paradigm of learning. Yet is has to be taught be people who can actually DO...over the Greek model of book learning to take a test to pass a class with no real world application on how to actually think that matters. Both these teachers were never satisfied unless there was a finished product!
What these kids did was amazing...but people who do not do cannot appreciate others that do as seen by the failed Detroit house built. More proof handout do not work. Who are the worst kids ever? Trustfund babies. They have no ownership over the money they have and therefore can never appreciate t hat which they possess. Liberal funding does not work.
Lastly, note how alive these students were as the movie progressed over the first few days of skepticism and faithlessness. When hope was ignited, they took off. I have lived in a small town. Many times the parents do not want their kids to get educated because they will leave so they suppress education. They will never admit this of course. Then there are those who are threatened by progress. This is the antithesis of creativity. Not all progress is good progress. I am sure many will tink, "Great, my kid was taught how to design and build, now they will want to leave this town!" Yet some might want to invest in the town their families live in as well.
One thing I would have done with these students is before leaving encourage them to start their own business. Keep the unity developed because when the pack leaders go, the pack will stray like sheep.
Great documentary...this couple should be extremely proud of what they accomplished. Their maturity level is what America needs and this world! Those who give back, but they did much more, they taught the next generation and changed those kids lives through accomplishment.
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- Nov 4, 2018
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- Gross US & Canada
- $43,393
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $4,949
- Jan 12, 2014
- Gross worldwide
- $43,393
- Runtime1 hour 25 minutes
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