Final Task

While browsing through the different Educating Rita`s sites there was one question which kept rumbling in my mind. " Education gives you a choice. How does Willy Russell show this through the changes made in Educating Rita?"

I think that Educating Rita shows thetwo sides of the same coin. On the one hand , we have Rita who has clearly developed herself and Education has had a great contribution to this development. However, she has already had choices . Imean she had the choice to decide whether she wanted to be an ordinary hairdresser and housewifw for the rest of her life, or if she prefered to do something in order to go beyond that barrier imposed by her close-knitted family group. She had the choice to spend the rest of her life with someone who had no expectations, no ambitions and to choose what to do. So I think Education served as kind of springboard between her burning desires and the opportunity to make these dreams come true. Education is definitely a powerful tool which can give anyone the means to fulfill their goals , their objectives but we can have choices ( and I think Rita has proved this to be possible) even if we don`t have education. As existentialists say " we always make choices even when we refuse to choose".

Now Frank as the teacher helped her to grow . He didn`t despise her because she belonged to a lower class. He allowed her to dream and that was very generous of him. I believe that we, as teachers, should always give students the opportunity to achieve their dreams. we are as responsable as them about their education. Therefore we cannot charge everything on Education. I mean we are part of the education, parents are also part of it. So whenever we can a student who wants to fly we have to provide them with the tools to do it. We do not have to prevent them from flying. Even if they make a mistake , that is also part of their learning process. In fact, Rita made mistakes while going through this Educational path. However, she did learn a lot!!