This eye-opening and cerebral short film about some of Princeton classes and its programs is a challenging experience devoted to the cause of education.
From literature and philosophy, to marathon and math topics, here we get to follow lectures from some of the college's teachers and hear the students, a kind
of interaction that is always noble because everyday in our lives we are masters and students exchaning information or finding ways to improve life in the world,
or beyond if possible. And the most important question of all: Why? You gotta ask, you gotta find alternatives, you gotta try to understand and with some results
you get to some enlihgtnement but the why's never fade as long as you live. This film shows the importance of learning about something which goes beyond only
getting a degree and making tons of money.
I don't have many memories from the classes, it's all bits and pieces so I won't form a biased or judgmental thinking from it, I'll leave it all to you to get insights or not. It is a confusing, kind of rushed and slightly difficult to follow at times due to its themes - though the classes were presented on a very human level that some aspects are easy to feel connected (it depends on the topics you like more, it'll get you a better comprehension). Most of this project feels like a commercial to Princeton University but made for a limited crowd the movie-going people of 1974 and possibly future viewers. It seems like a very interesting, cultured, diversed and open-minded place to attend; it feels like the college experience I'd like to have and it's far from what movies tend to present as recreation parks where doctors and teachers are tyrants, and students are just there to have some fun. It's all about learning, knowing and developing the first steps to a wider world of experiences.
Academy Award winner as Best Short Documentary, "Princeton: A Search for Answers" is a good film that mirrors and exemplifies what the learning and the teaching process is about: to exchange experiences, make all parties think for themselves and question things time and again, search for answers all the time.
Looking back at how the college experience changed over the years (though I guess it depends on where one lives) what's killing the system is the political use students and teachers use to spread ideologies and some propaganda on classes, arrogantly sharing their views and making divisions of a whole class. It's a kind of dangerous ground to peple who are easily influenceable, it interrupts the process of questioning and learning because they're being spoonfed and are not allowed to do their own reasoning or research. As I kept watching the film I noticed those early adults with a heightened sense of curiosity, excitment and humor. The cause of education isn't the same anymore...yet we dare to question everything. 7/10
I don't have many memories from the classes, it's all bits and pieces so I won't form a biased or judgmental thinking from it, I'll leave it all to you to get insights or not. It is a confusing, kind of rushed and slightly difficult to follow at times due to its themes - though the classes were presented on a very human level that some aspects are easy to feel connected (it depends on the topics you like more, it'll get you a better comprehension). Most of this project feels like a commercial to Princeton University but made for a limited crowd the movie-going people of 1974 and possibly future viewers. It seems like a very interesting, cultured, diversed and open-minded place to attend; it feels like the college experience I'd like to have and it's far from what movies tend to present as recreation parks where doctors and teachers are tyrants, and students are just there to have some fun. It's all about learning, knowing and developing the first steps to a wider world of experiences.
Academy Award winner as Best Short Documentary, "Princeton: A Search for Answers" is a good film that mirrors and exemplifies what the learning and the teaching process is about: to exchange experiences, make all parties think for themselves and question things time and again, search for answers all the time.
Looking back at how the college experience changed over the years (though I guess it depends on where one lives) what's killing the system is the political use students and teachers use to spread ideologies and some propaganda on classes, arrogantly sharing their views and making divisions of a whole class. It's a kind of dangerous ground to peple who are easily influenceable, it interrupts the process of questioning and learning because they're being spoonfed and are not allowed to do their own reasoning or research. As I kept watching the film I noticed those early adults with a heightened sense of curiosity, excitment and humor. The cause of education isn't the same anymore...yet we dare to question everything. 7/10
