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As the industrial revolution spawned the pastoral myth as an antidote to the harsh realities of factory toil and urban stress, so did the advent of assembly line education in the twentieth century spawn its own sustaining myth--the myth of the great teacher. Hollywood is one of the places our...
..where twentieth-century myths get told, and few have been better told than the myth of the great teacher. Beginning with the British Good Bye, Mr. Chips in 1939 and continuing to the just-released School of Rock teacher movies have become a perennial and life-affirming genre.
Myths, it must be remembered, are not lies. Myths are stories we tell to sustain ourselves. They are full of truth--truths about ourselves--about what we want to be true, what we feel could be true. Myths are stories of what's possible. The myth of the great teacher is a story we never tire of hearing because...
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