Teachers are the guiding lights in students' lives who teach, motivate, and inspire for a better future.
Here are the top 7 iconic Hollywood movies that capture the importance of teachers in a student's life like no other. Let's check them out!
The Karate Kid (2010): It follows a young boy who moves to China with her mother where he faces bullying and finds himself a master of kung fu.
Good Will Hunting (1997): It tells the story of a mathematics genius who works as a janitor at MIT where a psychologist guides him to find the right path in his life.
The Book Thief (2013): Set in the horrific times of WWII, the movie captures the tale of a young girl who was taught to read and write letters by a Jewish refugee hidden in her family’s basement.
Dead Poets Society (1989): It’s about a highly conservative boarding school where a group of students learn to rebel against the status quo and discover deeper meaning in life with the arrival of a new poetry teacher at the school.
To Sir, with Love (1967): It follows an out-of-work engineer who takes up a teaching job at a high school where he implements his own discipline in the class, unaffected by the rowdy students.
Half Nelson (2006): An Oscar-nominated movie, that showcases an unlikely friendship between a drug-addict high-school teacher and a student who discovers his secret.
Freedom Writers (2007): It tells the story of a young teacher who helps her deemed as incapable of learning students find hope in life again by teaching them to pursue education beyond high school.