herbiehancock

Call out my bias, but I myself am an elementary school teacher first.  I do this movie review stuff for fun.  When I read this recent little wannabe gem from Movies.com, entitled "8 Great Big-Screen Teachers," both the movie critic in me and the school teacher in me felt jibbed.  Of all the great movie teachers out there, just those eight?  Not only were some a little thin to begin with (Helen Mirren in Teaching Mrs. Tingle ?) some true great ones were flat-out omitted. Well, as a teacher who just happens to write a movie review blog where the hook is discussing the life lessons anyone of any age can learn from any given movie, I felt obliged to make my own list, especially in honor of Bad Teacher coming out this Friday.  Much like my recent postings on fathers and father-figures, I will feature a life lesson stemming from each teacher and movie. So, here's this blog's top 10 (well, 12 with an honorable mention #11 and a respecting a tie of honorable class...