Genius girl is also a girl!
I strongly recommend the film "Genius Girl" to young parents.
This is not an inspirational educational film, but a conflict story of educational ideas full of warmth and humanity.
What are parents' best educational expectations for their children?
From ancient times to the present, no matter which country, no parents don't love their children, and no parents don't want their children to be promising.
Expecting children to succeed is the general educational expectation of parents for their children.
All wishes are good, but different parents and children are naturally different. If different children are required by the same standards, things that disappoint parents may happen, because educational expectations and educational results cannot be completely equal.
As parents, perhaps we are always used to giving our children a lot of expectations subconsciously, thinking that all our unfulfilled wishes and ideals should be realized by children and pinning all our hopes on them. I don't know that high expectations have become the heaviest shackles of children, which is likely to ruin their carefree childhood, which in turn requires children to spend a lifetime to heal their unfortunate childhood.
What is the most important thing to face gifted children? This may be a different choice for many parents.
? Adler once said a wise saying: a happy childhood cures a lifetime, and an unfortunate person cures his childhood with a lifetime. It is true that the growing environment of childhood has shaped people's character; His experience solidified people's thinking mode and unconscious inertia. Diane's childhood, all day with math, no friends, no entertainment; It was because of his sister's suicide that Frank quit his job as a university teacher and took his niece Mary with him, trying to give her a child a proper childhood.
To be the person you want to be, the first sentence is this lyric:
"Doctor, actor, lawyer or singer, why not be president and be a dreamer, can you? Be what you want to be. "
It is very simple for any 6-or 7-year-old child to become what he wants to be and live the life he wants in the future. After all, it should be the age when children have their own dreams. But Mary exposed herself in the first math class at the beginning of the film.
On the first day of school, all the children in the class are trying to solve the math problems like1+1= 2,2+2 = 4 ... Mary shows disdain. Bonnie, her math teacher, noticed her performance and deliberately made it more difficult to give her a test question alone. Little Mary answered perfectly. Finally, Bonnie even gave Mary a "calculator" problem, trying to give Mary a scare. Unexpectedly, little Mary got the right answer in no hurry, which was exactly the same as the result calculated by the teacher's calculator. Frank was asked to pick up Mary from school because Mary yelled at the headmaster and asked her to call Frank to pick her up. Bonnie chased Frank and told him that Mary was very talented, but Frank deliberately acted disapprovingly. Said that Mary only knew one formula, and he knew trachtenberg's formula when he was eight years old.
Bonnie googled trachtenberg and found that Mary's mother Diane was a brilliant young mathematician, but unfortunately she committed suicide early. Frank is Mary's uncle.
Mary's life story was dug up by the school. "Your daughter is a genius," they told her uncle Frank, who lived with Mary day and night.
If it weren't for her uncle, maybe Mary wouldn't have a normal life. After my uncle sent her to kindergarten, the teacher and uncle said that Mary's IQ was completely higher than that of all children of the same age, and she had to ask a cross-grade question to confuse Mary and let her transfer. My uncle didn't transfer after learning the news, but still let Mary live with the ordinary children in this school.
It can be seen that my uncle knew his talent, but he didn't want Mary to live a special life, so he let Mary stay in an ordinary school and live an ordinary life.
If it weren't for my uncle, maybe Mary had been taken away by my grandmother. In the film, Mary's grandmother also knows Mary's extraordinary mathematical talent. Grandma wants to take Mary away so that she can solve the math problem of the century. At the same time, she invited many math teachers to take her away and received more special education since she was a child. But my uncle didn't agree. He had a fierce quarrel with his grandmother. After that, I succeeded in keeping Mary by my side.
Therefore, it is because of her uncle that Mary has a complete and happy childhood. It's not that my uncle won't let Mary enter the field of mathematics research, but that my uncle knows that having a happy childhood is very important to children and doesn't want to leave regrets like her mother's. Therefore, my uncle insisted that Mary have a happy childhood memory.
Frank gave up his original career for Diane's wish, and devoted himself to Mary, hoping that she would have a happy childhood, or even just hope that she would become a happy ordinary person. If it were you, would you agree? What would you choose?
Genius is always in the minority, and most people are destined to be ordinary. It's just that every ordinary person always has his own characteristics. As a parent, have you noticed? What can you do as a teacher? Caring for children's hearts and talents requires your love, wisdom and patience ... Are you ready?
In laughter and tears, we were moved by every kind person in the film.
Needless to say, the handsome man Frank, lovely Mary; A kind black fat mother; Bole-type Bonnie teacher; A serious and lovely principal; ? Aggressive "grandma wolf"; A glib judge. Every scene is the director's elaborate work!
This is a story about a little girl with outstanding mathematical talent. As a "gifted girl", her uncle and grandmother have different views on how to spend their childhood. ......
After that, she was trained as a talented model and still lived an ordinary life like ordinary people. The appearance of Mary's grandmother Evelyn began to make Mary's future uncertain. With a strong British accent, Frank was dragged to court for the custody of her children, and her smile was hard to see, which made people feel that her personality was very critical ....................................................................................................................................... Grandma Evelyn took Mary for a clear purpose: she didn't come to rob her granddaughter, but to rob a "talented girl".
Frank, who raised Mary since childhood, has no money, lives in a shabby house, has no piano, lives by repairing boats on the dock, has low income and no medical insurance; Evelyn has money, a good house, a piano, high income and medical insurance. Moreover, she is high flyers from the Department of Mathematics in Cambridge. She has the financial resources, energy and will to train Mary well, and she has also been authorized by her biological father.
In this lawsuit in court, it is clear at a glance who will win the child by substituting the above-mentioned known conditions into the topic of "who is more suitable for raising children". But Mary said, "He (Frank)? Want me? Before me? Smart. "
Who knows Evelyn still won't give up? She proudly expressed her views on education in court and answered all kinds of questions thrown by Frank's lawyer. Mary's mother, Diane, a math genius, died of suicide, no entertainment, no companions, no high school, no sports activities, no summer camp, no girl scouts ... She was imprisoned by her mother at home to study math since she was a child. At the age of seventeen, her first love took her to elope for skiing, and Evelyn reported to the police in cold blood that the other party had kidnapped her. Because she has no social interaction since she was a child, she has no ability to distinguish. Later, Diane had a random relationship with an irresponsible man, got pregnant and gave birth to Mary ... ...
However, in court, this terrible woman, like the prophets and martyrs who were misunderstood and judged by ordinary people in history, said righteously: Diane is different from ordinary people. She is a genius among a billion people, so my responsibility to her is not just mother and daughter. Great discoveries that promote human progress come from very few people. Without them, how can human civilization advance! As for killing her daughter's love affair with her own hands, which led to her attempted suicide, Evelyn raised her aging neck and stressed: "It's nothing!" And proudly said, "Later Diane thanked me for my intervention in this matter and admitted her mistake."
Since then, Evelyn and Frank have reached an agreement on the custody of Mary and adopted them to a better family.
At this point, the whole drama reached its climax, which also made me completely break the defense. When leaving, Frank fought back his tears and comforted Mary with all kinds of rational words. Mary cried, "I'm not going anywhere!" " ! "Tears.
On his first visit, Frank came to the foster home with things early, and was surprised to learn that Mary didn't want to see him. After Mary separated from her uncle, it was a disappointment and pain.
Frank didn't smell the story until he learned that Fred, the one-eyed cat who had been with Mary, was waiting for euthanasia in the adoption center. Rushing into the foster home, Mary was trapped between her grandmother and a mathematician like a little prisoner, her pale face gloomy and depressed.
Finally, Frank took her away from Evelyn like a hero. Mary forgave her uncle, and they hugged and cried and vowed never to part.
This makes us think deeply about two completely different educational views. Uncle Frank firmly believes that it is not important to be a genius, but more important to be happy and feel the meaning of life. He insisted that she go to the most ordinary school, learn to play with her peers and have a happy childhood, instead of letting the tragedy of her sister Diane repeat itself in young Mary.
However, Grandma Evelyn, who deeply regrets her daughter's life, saw the dawn of making up for her daughter's regret in Mary. At that time, Evelyn was bent on cultivating her children into top mathematicians in the world and making contributions to the development of all mankind. She has never asked her daughter what kind of life she wants, and has been training her daughter in self-righteous education.
Diane, who is under high pressure, has no life at all. She finally chose to commit suicide, leaving a solved mathematical manuscript, but she asked not to make it public until her mother died. This manuscript completely destroyed Evelyn, who was bent on making up for Mary's regret. She stopped interfering with Mary's education and let the children live like children.
This film is no longer about inspirational education, but people's attitude towards education. A person's life should not be at the mercy of others. As an independent, free and thoughtful person, he should have his own dreams and pursuits, which is his wonderful life.