Evaluating Educating Rita

to say, but as we later find out, Frank, has a drink problem, which is

Change is good. Santiago doesn’t realize this message applies everywhere. As he walks an unfamiliar path to find an unidentified treasure, he doesn’t recognize the fact that many changes are occurring throughout him. He put a lot into faith during his journey as he went from a man of routine and order, to becoming a man of new experiences all because of a dream. This is only one example of a change he went through. There are many more that he underwent, each with a different story.

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything”.This quote is by George Bernard Shaw. In Humanities 9 we read a book called “Like Water For Chocolate”. “Like Water for Chocolate” is a book about a mexican romance with magical realism. The book was written by Laura Esquivel. A consistent theme in his book was change for the good and the bad. In my opinion the main thing that affects all of the characters is change.

As a young school girl, Leta described her education as being individualized which allowed her to live up to her full intellectual potential. Leta progressed throughout school increasing her writing

Though this character changes drastically throughout the extent of the play, one consistency is the idea that change can be a good thing, as long as it is embraced rather than

Henry Brooks Adams once said, “A teacher affects eternity; he/she can never know where his/her influence stops”. In the book Speak, by Laurie Anderson and The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man in the Moon Marigolds, by Paul Zindel, students find valuable discoveries about themselves, throughout the book/play. Melinda, ( the protagonist in Speak) and Tillie ( the protagonist in The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man in the Moon Marigolds) have to overcome tough challenges at school and at their homes because of what people say and do to these two kids. Both of these kids had to face horrible situations, but they finally learned at the end that they could overcome significant events, with a little help from their mentors/teachers. Both of theses mentors helped Melinda and Tillie find a special subject that they adored and had a

It is this time when children begin to understand how scary the world is and what it contains, such as sickness, pain, and scary creatures. They see the do's and don'ts, so they do what they need to protect themselves. From our childhood experiences, we are extra cautious about our surroundings such as the example of the child and the sand. This limits our act of searching and discovering the world, but it does not stop our curiosity and uncertainty. Cathy Davidson, the author of "Project Classroom Makeover", explains how a student's creative mind is pushed away to make room for academic studies. The educational system is inefficient in today's world. Believing that the problem comes from classrooms, she encourages teachers and parents to teach their students and children about their academics and take part in things that interest them. Teachers should help students focus on their studies and encourage students to find their passion of interests in the world. It is best for both teachers and students if the students can open up more and have their curiosity lead

Educating Rita centers on a twenty-seven-year-old woman names Susan, who goes by the name Rita. She is experiencing an internal struggle involving her social class and feels that she should fall into a higher class. Rita begins attending Open University at tutorial sessions with Dr. Frank Bryant. These tutorials eventually lead Rita to her love with literature and realization that it is possible to have a choice in life.

What moves us to inquire about the world we live in; what inspires us to change, and how do we grow intellectually? Knowledge is an accumulation of experiences, which are obtained either conventionally in a school setting, or indiscriminately through life-experiences. Likewise, from these experiences conventional or otherwise, information is then transferred, acquired, and reappropriated. However, within this sequence of events knowledge is at risk of misinterpretation. In those circumstances it is the story, the most ancient forms of communication that is capable of making the unfamiliar appear obvious. Through her story Flight Behaviour, Barbara Kingsolver acts as a teacher, surreptitiously conveying her own opinions on education and the process of learning through the development of her characters. Subsequently, Kingsolver provides a valuable outlook regarding the elements required to engage intellectually; and furthermore her outlook offers creditable insight regarding the process of learning. Not merely an anecdotal novel, Kingsolver conveys a fundamental educational paradigm through her narrative. Indeed, engaging intellectually requires both aptitude and enthusiasm, but Kingsolver proposes that education is far more complex than a simple binary. Kingsolver suggests that intellectual engagement is both a process and a maturation of one's ability to reason, which is fundamentally rooted in logic and passion.

The society we live in distorts our own unique desires and goals. When in a workplace or community it puts more pressure and expectation on individuals’ goals, warping them until a point where one identifies what they truly want and breaks the mould and expectations of society to do this. Examining texts such as ‘Educating Rita’ and ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ in addition to my own personal experience will bring forth an understanding of how society affects growing up and transition into new phases of life into a larger world.

Ms. Lange is a Spanish teacher at Lincoln Hall Middle School who is among one of the most memorable. Many students recall her invigorating games and teaching methods, including one of her past students, Samir Ozaki. “She’s very relaxed, often relates to students and she’s very funny.” A reason she decided to become a teacher was because she knew she wanted to be a helper and as a child, she hated school- actually, it wasn’t rare for her to pretend to be sick just to stay home; now, she works toward making children feel good and excited to attend school everyday. How? Firstly, by telling students they are powerful and make a difference, that everyday their actions impact people, and reinforcing people care about them. These are powerful words

The film Matilda, created by Raold Dahl, tells the story of a gifted young lady named Matilda Wormwood, played by Mara Wilson, who was born into a very unaccepting and unsupportive community. She began her life in a very close-minded family. Her family did not support her thirst for knowledge and learning but rather were constantly pressuring her to be more like them; dishonest and unmotivated. When Matilda was of school age, she was overwhelmed with excitement at the prospect of beginning school until she met Agatha Trunchbull, the school’s principal. Even from their first meeting, their relationship was a difficult one and this tension tainted Matilda’s school experience. As Matilda continued to grow and learn, she realized that her power of telekinesis could be used to negate the effects of Mrs. Trunchbull’s behaviour on both herself and all of her friends. Throughout the movie, Matilda continues to realize the power within her and the love she has for learning. This film analysis will be reflecting on three different developmental lenses including John Bowlby’s attachment theory, Lev Vygotsky’s zone of proximal development and Jean Piaget’s stages of cognitive development and considering how each of these lenses relate to the film Matilda.

In todays issue, we will be reviewing Willy Russell’s 1980 play “Educating Rita”. Rita grew up in a lower class family in England. Here, she worked as a hairdresser before being compelled to change her future. She began taking up a course in literature with none other than Dr. Frank Bryant, the drunken mess of the Open University. In comparison, we will also be addressing Alan Jay Lerner’s 1964 musical, “My Fair Lady”, which follows Eliza Doolittle’s transition into the life of academia, with the help of Professor Henry Higgins, in 1912 England society. Higgins studies linguistics with a firm belief that the accent of a person determines their place in society. He came across Eliza and began boasting to his friend, Pickering, that his talents are so good that he could even change her Cockney accent and pass her off as a duchess. Eliza shows up at Higgins’ door the next morning, looking for speaking lessons from him. Both texts are very closely related but involve different forms of transitions, challenges and set backs which make each text

taught in childhood plays an important role in our lives. She writes about the profound effect

Socially Rita gets to know other students and starts to get involved in their conversations and she build in confident and her language starts to improve and she think before she speaks and makes sense in what she is saying. Economically Rita does not have a good house to live in. the house she lives in is not as well decorated and her husband Denny is breaking down the wall to make two rooms into one. The environment she lived in was polluted and there was a factory nearby. She lived in a terraced house in a city area and they were probably buying that house or probably had a mortgage.