Les Choristes in French is a French music film released on March 17, 2004, that tells a traditional but special story: a group of mischievous "problem boys" who, under the influence and education of a kind and patient music teacher, have a direction for the unknown. This is a classic work on the theme of education, the classic work can stand the polishing of time, and "The Spring of the Cattle Herding Class" can still bring inspiration and thinking to today's education.
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In Matthew's diary, he wrote: "I don't know why I came here, Hasson [the headmaster] scares me, the gloomy architecture here scares me, these children scare me, I'm afraid they'll come in and murder me." At first, it was indeed a "gray" school shrouded in gloom.
On Matthew's first day at work, the principal stressed to him that he should first study the rules and regulations here. Uncle Maxons' eyes were injured by the students' pranks, and the blood flowed, but the headmaster asked Matthew to quickly ring the bell to gather everyone, and Matthew said, Should we find a doctor first? The headmaster replied, "Do you know the boarding regulations here?" What did I tell you? Hearing the bell, the children went downstairs one after another, and the last child who walked there obviously didn't say anything, but the principal and another teacher rudely hit their heads with their hands and shouted "Quiet!" The solution to this prank is to give the perpetrator a severe punishment in accordance with the school's consistent "action-response" principle. Instead, a random student from the list is selected to be punished, whether he is innocent or not, until the real perpetrator turns himself in or is reported.
Headmaster Hasson's simple and brutal approach to these unruly students is: confinement, slaps, ear, and verbal abuse. Whether right or not, he always treated his students with the coldest of attitudes, and even recreational activities were banned.
Schools are effective positions for propagating, indoctrinating, and disseminating a certain class of ideologies, moral norms, and policy lines, not cells full of violence. The physical and mental development of adolescents has certain laws, and these laws must also be adapted to when establishing the education system. It is precisely because this is a special school that it is more important to consider the characteristics of students' physical and mental development and the needs of human development, and to find a balance between collection and release, rather than formulating a system as hard as an iron door and shutting out all other methods that may be beneficial to students.
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As the soul of education, teachers should be the promoters of students' learning and the guides of development, and Matthew is such a teacher. Matthew came to be a good teacher with the belief of "never give up, hope is waiting for me in front".
Unlike others, Matthew would protect the students in front of the principal, give them the opportunity to admit their mistakes and correct them, and he would let the mischievous students go to the hospital to take care of Uncle Maxons personally, so that the students could understand Uncle Maxons's kindness from the bottom of their hearts and reflect on their own behavior. A good teacher will take the initiative to get to know the students. In the first lesson, Matthew asks the children to write down their names, ages, and things they want to do in the future; after the children have stolen their own sheet music, they accidentally discover their love for singing, and discover their talents, choosing to show their shining points in the form of a choir; Matthew can see their desire for freedom in the students' songs and eyes; he will fight for entertainment for the children, secretly take them to play hide-and-seek; he will maintain the innocence of each student. Mondan was mistaken by the principal and stole money into prison, when Matthew learned the truth, he quickly found the principal to intercede with Mondan, even if this is a well-behaved and violent student, Matthew also wants to work hard to redeem him; Matthew's care for the students does not mean that he is not strict, his strictness is measured and wise, and he will do his best to consider the feelings of the students and respect their own uniqueness.
Matthew considered himself an unsuccessful musician, an unsuccessful schoolmaster, but after coming to this school, his presence turned a lifeless school into a paradise full of laughter. He redeemed the children, and why didn't the children accomplish him? Spending time with the children gave him musical inspiration and eventually created a score that reached the atrium of his heart. After Matthew was expelled, passing under the children's classroom, suddenly a paper airplane fell from the sky, Matthew looked up and found a pair of small hands sticking out of the classroom window, they sang the songs taught by the teacher, expressing their reluctance and gratitude to the teacher in their own way, I think, at this moment, for a teacher who loves music, it is gratifying and happy to get the source and response from the students, which is perhaps the proudest moment of Matthew's life.
The essence of this group of children is not bad, and they can feel the sincere emotions. A pure and clean love will save a person's soul and achieve mutual achievement. The headmaster's prejudices made Mondan really incurable in the end, and without Matthew, there might have been more Montan in this school.
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The interaction between the teachers in the film is also interesting. One clip is that the children have not taken a hot bath for three weeks, and Matthew tells the principal that the principal is not doing it properly, and Chabel takes him to get the principal's inventory, dry firewood, and uses firewood to burn water to give the children a hot bath, which surprises Matthew because he thinks Chabell is with the principal. Through the conversation, Matthew understood that in Chabel's mind, sports and music were the elements that united the nation.
The math teacher, who never joked and looked stupid, liked Matthew's choir very much and offered to join in, playing the piano.
At the end of the film, several teachers jointly reported the principal's corporal punishment of students.
The mutual help and understanding between these teachers makes a harmonious teaching environment possible.
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Many of the problems that arise in students are related to their parents, and Pierre in the film is such a child. Matthew would do the lubricant between the child and the mother, patiently explain to the parents, tell the parents that the child has a talent that she had never found before, cooperate with the parents with a serious and responsible attitude, and finally win the trust of the parents.
The teacher's teaching is important, the parent's education is equally important, the two are well coordinated, and the child's acquired foundation is guaranteed.
How fortunate it was to meet a teacher like Matthew when I was a student, and how bright it was to have more Matthews in the future of education.
Text/Yessi
Editor/Xiao Yang
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