The Silver Screen Teacher

There are many different types of movies with many different purposes. Although the main purpose of the motion picture is to entertain, they can also teach important life lessons, and inform viewers. These lessons are sometimes taught directly, but most of the time they are indirect. Movies are a very popular and influential mass medium that can change the way people think. Therefore, movies are the best way to educate people, due to their influential …

…subjects. Being as influential as they are, movies are the most powerful form of education out there, even though it may not be blatantly obvious to most people. Learning lessons from movies is more of an independent learning. The best way to be educated is to not know that you are being educated, because in general, the messages you get from the movies will stick with you longer than anything you learned in a classroom.