10 Best Inspirational Movies for Teachers and Students
Looking for inspirational movies for teachers and students? You can’t go wrong with any of these films.
“I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up DOES rejoice. But still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they’re gone.”
—Red
“Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.”
—Sean
“Rich fellas come up an’ they die, an’ their kids ain’t no good an’ they die out. But we keep a’comin’. We’re the people that live. They can’t wipe us out; they can’t lick us. We’ll go on forever, Pa, ’cause we’re the people.”
—Ma Joad
“[After a breakthrough with Helen] Now all I have to teach you is one word – everything.”
—Annie Sullivan
“There’s a time for daring and there’s a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for.”
—John Keating
“The more things change, the more they stay the same.”
—Celie
“The problem isn’t the kids. It’s not even what they can achieve. The problem is what you expect them to achieve. You are setting the bar here. Why? Set it up here! They can make it.”
—Ron Clark
“I believe one should fight for what one believes. Provided one is absolutely sure one is absolutely right.”
—Mark Thackeray
“We do what we have to do in order to do what we want to do.”
—James Farmer Jr.
10. Freedom Writers
“But even an ordinary secretary or a housewife or a teenager can, within their own small ways, turn on a small light in a dark room.”
—Miep Gies