5443 This film shows us the difference between a noisy classroom and a more quiet classroom. How they are quiet is obviously shown here. Now the question of HOW THEY GOT THAT WAY is never dwelled upon. One wonders if Miss Bradley isn't a bitch on wheels when the cameras arent running. How else could she have so much conformity in this class? That. or Ritalin. Lots and lots of it. RUN! RUN AS FAST AS YOU CAN! Spuzz 2003-07-31 16:26:15 2003-07-31 16:26:15 3 So many of the 1950's "educational" films made for schools were idealistic. Just how the teacher indoctrinated the whole class to be that quiet was a mystery. The students lacked energy & spontaneity. What child can be so"perfect." School is suppose to be a motivational place, not a military camp. This almost seemed like a scifi film. Too much quiet! ERD. 2009-08-10 14:13:39 2009-03-07 18:16:09 3 Horrible and stupid. Enforced silence is a mental cruelty to children. It brings back memories of teaches I had in those days with such restrictive teaching practises. The reality was that these cruel attitudes created the later rebellious behaviour in teen life of the early sixties and a hatred for learning. They believed that children must be seen and not heard. give me the first class any time. Child abuse of the 50s dubldeka 2009-08-09 05:46:20 2009-08-09 05:46:20 2 Miss Bradley is a genius. With organizational skills bordering on the supernatural, she has turned a group of seven-year-olds into one of the world's leading architecture firms. Miss Bradley DrAwkward 2009-08-16 04:18:38 2009-08-16 04:18:38 4 Let me guess: the bright accelerated white kids are the quiet class... The special-ed dumb kids and "ethnic" kids are the loud noisy ones? Seriously, though-- that first (noisy) classroom just sounds like a bunch of normal kids getting some good work done. I don't see what the "problem" is. The Fifties were straitlaced, weren't they? That Bobby looks like a young Jeffrey Dahmer. School "types" and divisions rasputin2 2009-09-10 03:05:40 2009-09-10 03:01:05 5 5 3.40