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Teaching in Popular Culture

Teachers and teaching have been depicted in numerous popular books, movies, and television shows. The following is a short list:

Books

• Goodbye, Mr. Chips
• Up the Down Staircase

Movies

• Blackboard Jungle
• Dangerous Minds
• Dead Poets Society
• Goodbye, Mr. Chips
• Mr. Holland's Opus
• (The) Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
• Stand and Deliver
• Tom Brown's Schooldays
• To Sir, With Love

Television Shows

• Welcome Back, Kotter
• Head of the Class
• Boston Public
• Room 222
• The Worst Witch

See also

• School and university in literature