What exactly makes a good teacher? Their ability to cram knowledge into kids skulls? Or is it judged by how nice they can be? To some, it is determined by a teachers ability to be able to connect with their students, in and out of the classroom, as seen by Ms Watson (from Mona Lisa Smile) and my old French teacher, Mme Haveman.
As seen in the film, Mona Lisa Smile, Ms Watson does her best to connect with her students while also trying to teach them something more than art. Even though Ms Watson is strict and takes no nonsense from the girls, she does show that she really cares about them on a personal level. She wants to see her girls, especially Joan, become something more than just a housewife that the school prepares them to be. Even after Betty wrote those terrible articles about Ms Watson and Ms Armstrong, Watson was still there for her when she decided to divorce her new husband. Like Mme Haveman, Ms Watson wants to see her girls grow up into happy, healthy women.
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