May 14, 2011
When I was a member in an inner-city Memphis church, I occasionally had teaching responsibilities, especially teenagers. I liked to use films that connected with them. These three did.
They all show what finding your calling is all about: the most important thing you can do in which you would be most difficult to replace.
The Marva Collins Story. It's online for free. This is a 1981 Hallmark TV show. It stars Cicely Tyson and Morgan Freeman. It is the true story of a woman who started an inner-city private school. She was asked by President Reagan in 1981 to become the Secretary of Education. She turned him down.
Stand and Deliver. This HBO video is about Jaime Escalante, who (briefly) revolutionized a mostly Hispanic public school in Los Angeles. The film is mostly true, although the process took longer. But it was not to last institutionally. It did last for the students, as I have written here. http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north831.html
Something the Lord Made. This HBO movie is the story of a great surgeon and the formally uneducated African-American technician who designed his implements and taught him how to use them. They transformed medicine.
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