Facebook has exploded with pictures of kids physically, not virtually, going back to school, or in many instances starting school for the first time.
Here’s my list of favorite movies I have seen with education as a central theme or important school scene:
To Sir with Love
Yentl
The Way We Were
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
The Winslow Boy (1948 and 1999)
Fame
Juno
The Children’s Hour
The History Boys
Freaky Friday
The Blue Angel
13 Going on 30
Dead Poets Society
Blackboard Jungle
How Green Was My Valley
Goodbye Mr. Chips (1939)
Horse Feathers
Animal House
Back to School
The Breakfast Club
Hairspray (musical and non musical)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
The Paper Chase
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Pretty in Pink
All of the Indiana Jones movies
Legally Blonde
Back to the Future
The Absent-Minded Professor
Hoosiers
Good Will Hunting
Election
Mr. Holland’s Opus
Pleasantville
Spider-man (2002)
The Last Picture Show