This article is written by Uncle Lan
Uncle Lan usually loves to play basketball, so it is a must-see for sports movies, especially basketball-related movies.
In the past few days, I have revisited the movie "Coach Carter", and the lead actor of this film, Samuel Jackson, is the director in the "Avengers".
There was also Chanin Tatum, who was still a small fresh meat at that time.
After brushing up on the film again, I found that it could not be simply a sports inspirational movie.
I thought it was a very burning inspirational movie:
An iron-blooded coach who leads a last-ditch basketball team that lasts until the final of the state championship. Although the team failed to win the championship in the end, the team won everyone's respect, and the players also realized their self-worth.
Many years later, Uncle Lan got married and had children, and gradually began to worry about the education and future of his children.
Looking at this film again, I have different feelings.
Discover the movie "Coach Carter", which is a story about individuals changing their destiny through learning, while criticizing and reflecting on education.
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The Richmond High School basketball team is a bad team.
Last season they only won 4 games and lost 22.
This season, the team came with a new coach named Carter.
Carter also graduated from High School.
While on the basketball team, he was a two-time All-American basketball star, keeping multiple records, and later went to college on a full scholarship.
In other words, Coach Carter himself is a low-level counterattack and climbs to the middle of society.
The first thing the coach did was to tell the players to use honorific titles: every time they said a word, they had to use the word "sir".
What does that mean? The first step is to learn to respect people so that you can win respect.
Then Coach Carter gave each person a contract, which stipulated: how many points must be achieved in cultural studies, can not skip class, but also have to sit in the front row to listen to classes, participate in competitions to wear formal clothes, have to wear a tie, and so on.
The players wondered: Are we here to play basketball? How did you talk to me about learning about culture classes?
Not only do teammates not understand, but parents do not understand.
At the parent-teacher meeting, some parents directly said: This is playing basketball, man! Do these regulations have anything to do with basketball?
Carter told parents that a good academic performance makes the requirements for college entrance examination scores lower and easier to get college scholarships. Playing basketball is a privilege, and to get it, you have to follow the rules.
What does this mean: Want to go to college by playing ball? If you think, listen to Lao Tzu, who sends your children to college.
After listening, the teammates had to obediently sign the contract.
Coach Carter really had two brushes.
Under his leadership, the team has been marching forward and invincible.
But.
Problems followed.
The team's record has improved, but the children's performance has not improved. Truancy of skipping class, bubble girl of bubble girl.
Not only that, but winning the game will also humiliate the opponent, and any party carnival will come.
In a fit of rage, Coach Carter locked the basketball gym, suspended training, and even abstained from the game.
This was a terrible move, and Carter's move fried the pot in the community.
The principal came to question him, and the television station came to report on the incident.
Parents are also indignant: there are scouts who want to come to see my son play and not let the team participate in the game, doesn't this affect my son's future?
No matter how others protest and oppose, Coach Carter will say one sentence: everything is according to the contract!
The incident got bigger and bigger, and some angry parents smashed the glass of Coach Carter's shop, and some spit on Carter on the road.
Carter was still unmoved.
Finally, the community held a hearing, skipped the contract directly, and unanimously agreed to reopen the basketball gym and continue to participate in the game.
Coach Carter decided to resign, and as he left, he wanted to look at the basketball gym again.
When he entered the stadium, he found tables and chairs on the court, and the players were reviewing their cultural lessons.
The student said: All the installation contracts come, we also speak the count!
At the end of the film, the team did not win the state championship.
But the players gained a lot more than the championship.
When they returned to school, they were warmly welcomed, honored and respected.
What's more, 6 of them went to college and changed their fate.
This is also the most important purpose of Coach Carter: to teach people to work hard and change their destiny.
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As a basketball coach, Carter only disciplines basketball well, so why do he ask students to learn culture lessons?
It has to do with Carter's personal experience.
Carter also graduated from Richmond High School, played basketball well and won a college scholarship, and after graduating from college, he found a good job. Later opened his own shop.
A rich life, a wife and a filial piety, can be regarded as a successful counterattack on life.
And the guy who played with him in the first place?
Some have gone to jail, some have been killed long ago.
This has not changed for three decades.
So, Carter wanted to change that.
He wants to help those who have the hope of going to college to successfully enter college and change their destiny.
What kind of community is Richmond?
From the film, we see that this is a community made up of mostly people of color. Africans, Asians, and Mexicans make up the vast majority.
Most of the parents are at the bottom and have a low level of education.
Many people get pregnant before they graduate from high school.
Some people have been gangsters for a long time, and in the future they will either eat in prison or be shot.
Lyle, the team member, his father is in prison, living with his uncle.
The team member, Junier, his brother was shot and killed, and lived with his mother. Basketball was his only hope.
Cruz, a member of the team, watched his cousin being shot and killed in the street.
Team member Ken Young, girlfriend is pregnant, they plan to give birth to a baby.
If they don't change the status quo, there is a high probability that they will still struggle to live at the bottom.
Coach Carter looked at his talent and felt that if they studied hard, they would have a chance to go to college. Life can change dramatically.
In fact, for the vast majority of ordinary people at the bottom, desperately studying and getting into a good university is the most effective way to change their destiny.
This is true in ancient and modern China and abroad.
In ancient times, how many cold disciples, cold windows hard to study for ten years, the imperial examination once won, since then changed their fate.
Today, the college entrance examination is still the most effective way for countless people to change their destiny.
There is an old saying: "One life, two fortunes, three feng shui, four accumulation of yin virtue, five readings".
It's about the ways people change their destiny.
You can look at it.
Is your dad rich? Have you ever won a lottery ticket? Did your ancestral grave ever smoke? Have you done anything good in your last life?
What the? None? So you still can't read well?
Some people here would say, what about getting into college? In the future, the job will be paid 6,000 yuan a month, and I can earn so much every month moving bricks on the site.
Indeed, at first glance it seems that you earn as much money moving bricks as you do after graduating from college.
However, moving bricks can only take so much, which is fixed to death. Even if you work hard and suffer very hard, your salary is capped.
And going to college and being highly educated means that there are endless possibilities for the salary you can get in the future, and there is no upper limit. In the future, you may get a monthly salary of 10,000, or even 100,000.
The higher the education, the higher the upper limit for the future.
Of course, how high this "upper limit" is, it depends on individual efforts.
This "infinite possibility" alone is worth fighting for.
Uncle Lan was particularly annoyed with those who knew that they did not have to study hard, but laughed at those who studied hard: Look, after studying so hard and getting into college, it is not as much as I earn!
You can say I wasn't successful enough, but you've obviously given up the struggle, so please don't laugh at the people who are struggling.
No matter what the future results are, even if you can only move bricks after graduation in the future, you must have a heart that will always be upward. You can't bow to mediocrity, even if your head is broken and bleeding, and your body is shattered to pieces.
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Although education gives people at the bottom a chance to get ahead, there are still all kinds of injustices.
Coach Carter approached the principal and complained that the various classroom teachers had not submitted reports on the students' progress.
The principal replied to him this way: Our school has the lowest rating, the government allocates less money, and the corresponding teacher's salary is low.
The implication is that the teachers are so paid, and it is good to teach the class well. I can't give them extra tasks.
Here is actually caught in a dead cycle: the school graduation rate is low, so the assessment results are poor, so the government gives less money, the resources required for school development are less (such as teacher salaries, infrastructure, etc.), and finally the school's assessment is still not good in the next year, so vicious circle.
This is the problem of the unfair distribution of educational resources that still exists in our country.
Economically developed cities have more educational resources than backward cities, cities have more than rural areas, and the high rate of further education is much lower than the rate of further education, and the result is that poor schools are getting worse and worse.
This is why Chinese parents who smash pots and sell iron also have to buy a school district.
This is a problem of the system, and we look at the problem of teaching philosophy.
After Coach Carter closed the gymnasium, the principal came to look for Carter.
The headmaster asked Carter: You don't let them play, but let them learn, trying to deprive them of the only highlight of their lives? What if they fail (can't get into college)?
The subtext is: they can't get into college anyway, just let them participate in basketball games, and later they can be used as the highlight moments of life as memories.
By this time, the school's teachers, and even the principal, had forgotten that the team members were first and foremost a student, and that the main task was to learn and improve themselves, followed by basketball players.
The teachers had long since given up on the bad students.
That's why Carter replied to the principal: (The students can't pass) it's because we failed.
The above is the attitude of educators to (poor) students, and then look at the attitudes of parents of students.
Although, Coach Carter has expressed that the suspension is for students to be able to graduate and be able to go to college.
Parents still unanimously opposed Coach Carter and demanded that the basketball gym be reopened.
In fact, like teachers, parents have given up on their children, believing that children have no hope of going to college.
Are parents not loving their children?
No, it's just that their own concepts and patterns have bound themselves, and they can't take a longer-term view.
They just made the decisions they thought were best.
Therefore, those students who were born in the cold door want to get ahead, and they face too many difficulties.
Schools, families, can be obstacles.
Fortunately, there were teachers like "Coach Carter" who were able to successfully counterattack and get rid of poverty and ignorance.
Just like Teacher Fei in the movie "My Hometown and Me", Teacher Gao.
There is also the principal of Lijiang Huaping Girls' Senior High School: Zhang Guimei.
It is their selfless dedication that allows their students to change their destinies.
Dear netizens, do you have such a "Carter Coach" in your life?