In a film where we must care for the actress playing Ashton-Warner or see the whole film crumble, Firth has chosen superbly.
The same passion burns through “Sylvia” (at the Samuel Goldwyn Pavilion), New Zealand writer-director Michael Firth’s darkly glowing portrait of Ashton-Warner herself during these crucial years. That quality burns like a laser through “Teacher,” her account of the seeming impossibility of reaching young Maori children in New Zealand in the early 1930s by traditional British teaching methods.Įverything failed, until Ashton-Warner hit upon a system of using “fear words and love words,” a very personal vocabulary that had meaning in these preschoolers’ lives. Sylvia Ashton-Warner has always been one of the most passionate figures in the world of education.
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