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Être et avoir, To be and to have, Maïa Films présente ; en coproduction avec Arte France Cinéma, les Films d'Ici, le Centre National de Documentation Pédagogique ; avec la participation Canal+, du Centre National de la Cinématographie, de Gimages 4 ; producteur délégué, Gilles Sandoz ; un film de Nicolas Philibert

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MPAA rating: Not rated

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videorecording DVD

56054189

Maïa Films présente ; en coproduction avec Arte France Cinéma, les Films d'Ici, le Centre National de Documentation Pédagogique ; avec la participation Canal+, du Centre National de la Cinématographie, de Gimages 4 ; producteur délégué, Gilles Sandoz ; un film de Nicolas Philibert

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To be and to have

This film chronicles a year in the life of a one-room schoolhouse in rural France, presided over by Georges Lopez, a devoted teacher responsible for nurturing a dozen children ages 3-11. The film sees the teacher as artist, and presents teaching as a form of love. Because along with reading, writing, and arithmetic, the children learn about what we think of as the basic values of civilization: reason, tolerance, learning, cooperation, and comradeship. In one year, one dedicated teacher, sensitive to children's educational and emotional needs, exemplifies the importance of an abiding faith in children, and in education as a vocation

Opening credits -- Winter's morning -- Little ones -- Dictation -- Finished, Jojo? -- Crepes -- Stolen erasers -- Sorting things out -- Math homework -- Seven -- Her own world -- Stopping it all -- Dirty hands -- Obliged to succeed -- Ami and Amie -- Middle school -- Heart to heart -- Fieldtrip -- New kids -- Sticking together

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live action

To be and to have