Posted by Kathleen - Teachers.Net on 3/03/09

“Slumdog Millionaire” Teaches About Education, Too
by Dorothy Rich in Teachers.Net Gazette

Mark Twain reminded us: “Don’t let schooling interfere with
your education,” wisdom hardly being listened to today.

...as an educator I was fascinated by how much this little
boy who had experienced extraordinarily awful circumstances
while growing up, managed to stay so humane and to learn so
much outside of the school. In the film we don’t see him go
to school except for the day that the teacher throws the
book The Three Musketeers at him.
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“Slumdog Millionaire” Teaches About Education, Too

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