Education for Excellence (Part II)

★★★★ · All about those gifted students who we all picked on at school. You know the ones. · Spuzz · 2003-09-11

Nice looking film with overachieving gifted students, you know, the ones you were always jealous of? spurting out suspiciously scripted-sounding answers to their extremely peppy teacher's questions. I like how one of the teachers wears a furry hat to class while demonstrating how an engine works. THAT'S surreal. Another hilight is the assembly where the students ask experts of many different fields questions. Look for the girl with the EXTREMELY unkempt hair and the army major who looks to be falling asleep. A curious film.

★★★★ · Yes "ERD" It Was · JayKay49 · 2012-02-28

As I discussed in my blog on Part I, this was a good program for gifted children; nothing more than that, and clearly without bias toward race or gender. The makeup of this class seems to have no socioeconomic contstraints. That's the way it should be. I know from my own experience -many many decades ago. Believe me...colored kids can be very very smart! don't believe what you see on TV, in the comic books, or in the movies. Interestingly, not a peep about free breakfast, free lunch, or a free dinner - or eatin' at all! What on earth were they thinking? This was obviously in the day before…

★★★ · Bogus Adventure · Wilford B. Wolf · 2006-02-06

Early 1960s film touting New York's gifted student program for elementary schools. Many reviewers feel that the students are giving scripted answers, but I think it's more a different style of presenting information than is the norm in more comtemporary schools. This film is very New York in tone, and the education style is more "stand and deliver." Notice how all the kids, when in class discussions, get up from their seat and stand when they deliver the response. What worries more is the dubious pedagogy on display in this film. The principal at the begining says that students are selected…