the groundhog day project

Taking the music teacher (not that Dewey Finn was supposed to be a music teacher) a little more seriously today with Mr. Holland's Opus . We start with Glenn Holland (Richard Dreyfuss) conducting an imaginary orchestra, playing the titular opus. Conducting music that isn't there (an important idea for what's coming). Like Finn, Holland didn't intend to be a teacher. He got stuck with it. Not the most positive portrayals of being a teacher. At least John Keating seemed to have become a teacher on purpose. Classic teacher mistake, going to the textbook that early on day one. Me--the textbook is just support material; if the students read it they'll do better on the final, but if they just show up and listen/respond to my "lecture" they'll do just fine anyway. (For now. Being a graduate teaching assistant, I've been stuck with a preexisting syllabus and book, and a final exam primarily written by someone else. The situation could change once I ...

Teacher movie. Kid Movie. Seems only logical today's movie should combine the two. School of Rock . It's been a while since I've seen this movie, so I'm mostly just sitting and watching. But, I just go to include Dewey's (Jack Black) first lesson to his class: Give up. Just quit. Because, in this life, you can't win. Yeah, you can try, but in the end you're just gonna lose. Big time. Because the world is run by the Man. The Man. Oh, you don't know the Man? He's everywhere. In the White House. Down the hall. Ms. Mullins--she's the Man. And the Man ruined the ozone, he's burning down the Amazon, and he kidnapped Shamu and put her in a chlorine tank. And there used to be a way to stick it to the Man. It was called Rock 'n Roll, but guess what? Oh no, the Man ruined that, too, with a little thing called MTV. So don't waste your time trying to make anything cool or pure or awesome 'cause the Man is just gonna call you a fat, ...