It is interesting that Mary Beard almost had them. She tempted them. These kids are just so far gone, and yet, Mary Beard managed to keep their interest. It wasn't easy either. I would give my teeth to have a lecture from Mary Beard. She is definitely my hero. I got my degrees when I was much older and studied art history and my area of interest was the Ba of Naples before the eruption. I have read almost everything Mary Beard has written. I am a big fan. I hope they ended up appreciating her wonderful and brilliant style.
I admire Mary Beard so much and am appalled by thesis respectful behaviour of these pupils. I don't normally approve of ancient Roman school discipline, but maybe this could be an exception.
Thank goodness there is another teacher who believes in the students, even when they don't believe in themselves. It only takes one great teacher to change a student's attitude.
To everyone talking down about these students or their parents: relax! Take out the rods from your behinds and try to remember that they were just kids, just like we all were. If you never did something stupid as a youth, then congrats! The rest of us mortals actually know that we were not always polite, kind and motivated all the time. No matter what our parents efforts were. Or do you blame your parents for all the flaws that you have? And will you expect your kids (and the general public) to blame you for everything that they are doing wrong? These kids were there for a reason and were put together for that particular reason. They are the same as you but got stuck somewhere. The reasons could be many but blaming them will not help. Maybe they had a difficult uprising, maybe something else happened that made them loose their interest/confidence or maybe they were lacking a proper teacher. But they were in that great school, with awesome teachers, to see how they could get their motivation back. As teacher myself I know that the best way to helm them move forward is by motivation and support. Maybe at times it feels dire but never do I feel like I'm wasting my time because i know that there is hope and and if I can not see that then how can I expect the students to see it. Mary were exactly where she needed to be and did what she needed to do. Teenagers may not have developed a broad sense of empathy and understanding of how their behavior might effect others. But I'm guessing that most of the persons who are commenting here on this particular video are adults; Please be good examples for everyone who might look up to you. Do not lead by example by talking trash, but rather focus on what you think you can do to improve their, in your, world.
"remember that they were just kids, just like we all were" that's exactly what I'm doing, and I am imagining myself being a high school student in that class. I would be well annoyed with my peers...there was so much interruptions and disrespectful behaviour, I would barely have been able to learn anything. 20 minutes goes by and how far did we get? Rufus is drunk?? I would also have been annoyed with Mary's attempt to appeal to the students' interests by using an example "if you were going to the store to buy cigarettes and pizza...". I would have accepted that this probably WAS required to grab the students' attention, and I would have wished she could have used a more enlightened example. I also would have been secretly annoyed with the brothel reference, and glossing over the sociological and political significance of prostitution in the Empire. And I would have been severely annoyed and put off by the boys' reaction. I would have smiled slightly, and thought to myself "Ugh, I'm in a class with hairless monkeys. Well, this is why I only date 40 year old men and not my ignorant male peers. No chance I'm picking one of these oafs for the prom!" But...I'm a girl. And a feminist. That' probably explains why I valued my education. Nothing gets handed to girls for free, and I KNEW IT.
The older I get the more I understand the phrase "youth is wasted on the young". These kids are so ungrateful - seriously? MARY BEARD IS TEACHING YOU LATIN !!
They're lucking enough to even be learning Latin. All we had at school was French, which they nearly dropped from GCSE as so few people wanted to do it, lol. The "et cetera" thing was a good starting point, as it is often widely misunderstood.
Jamie's Dream School was set up by Jamie Oliver to help give 20 drop out kids to have a second chance of an education. So this is a class of kids who gave up on school, knowing that makes me think their attention wasn't too bad!
I don't think its possible to reform these kids when they're all together, because they perpetuate their collective attitude, it makes the power of peer pressure much greater. If they had started in good school, with other students that are dedicated then they would be able to do well.
I am a Latin teacher in Peru and send my congratulations to Mary Beard. She is a heroine for teaching those pupils. I havent found these stuff pupils in my classes in Peru. I thought my pupils were terrible but I was wrong.
I have been in worse. And if you have taught something, the red flags become more obvious. In the end, they're kids. Same goes with adults. It's just adults more often tend to at least pretend interest.
I was fortunate enough to run into this lady last year at the Augustus exhibition at Rome in the Scuderie. To me she is the equivalent of a rock star, I could only dream of sitting in on a class taught by her. What a waste of her precious time trying to instil knowledge in such empty heads. Nevertheless, I tip my hat to her for trying.
Beard does not mention the most important reason for youngsters to study languages, including Latin. Apparently the language you speak shapes your thoughts ( eg the french don't have imaginative authors like tolkien and cs lewis etc, but we don't have french philosophy.) So the more languages you have, the more you can think!
While it does leave me with a sense of woe, it's also heartening to see that kids are just as snotty, stupid and destined to failure as here in the States. Cheers!
Mary has often been faced with the question of 'Why did the Roman Empire' fall? Well, here's the answer. I bet Roman schools of the 4th century AD were a bit like this. Being the great empire, makers of everything great & tje greatest people of all; why do we need to work hard, we have everything. That attitude of nothing can touch us cannot be taken for granted. We had an empire (allegedly) but it's gone now. I rest my point. Education & knowledge is not what it was.
I don't think she engaged them. I think that they just trod water until the end of the class. I think the presence of the camera actually managed to elicit better behaviour than normal.
No, just indoctrinated by poorly educated Social Scientists posing as teachers who regard the teaching of Latin (and Greek) as elitist and thus to be outlawed.
Also, Latin hasn't been used as a living language for a very long time. Language drift and lack of experience with native speakers means nobody speaks like "Romans". The Romans didn't all speak like Romans either. We're talking about an empire encompassing a massive geographical area with many other languages and cultures. Point being, I think all the pretentious complaining about her pronunciation is pretty petty and meaningless.
I would take Latin but our little po dunk town library is not adequate and has no primary sources in Greek or Latin. I would love to relocate to Missoula, Montana where the University has classical and mediaeval program. A nice library with primary sources in Latin and rugged wild mountains full of wildlife in my backyard.
Wow hats off to that teacher for putting up with those dumb and disrespectful kids. Is this typical behavior of students/classrooms in England? Edit: I looked it up and see that these students were dropouts and indeed is for some type of reality show in an effort to reach these particular students.
This was a tv show which took the more disruptive and not as clever teenagers and basically gave them lessons in different subjects with experts in that field
Is this high school for "challenged" kids? I was interested in this but after 20 min I couldn't go on. I remember being bored in college sometimes but no one behaved like this
Those kids are too young to realize what a wonderful opportunity they have to learn Latin from Mary Beard. Someday they will know. Until then, I hope they will at least learn some measure of the beautiful Latin language.
I feel like this is a parody of an actual class with Mary Beard. These students are awful. In addition to what we see, let me quote part of the description... "Moments of class disruption may have been removed!"
I think these kids are probably fairly good examples of students... just think of thirty kids, less obedient, in a single class room! I have met and had long conversations with a few teachers from schools in Chicago--some retired, some still teaching. One thing I was struck by, in a couple of them, was a demeanor of inscrutability that suggested the weathering of tens of thousands of shrill and contentious ids. Another thing, in the most impressive of them, was a quiet resignation forged by the perception of not only the child's motivation to act out, but it's psychological source back to the parents--that the child was a walking, talking cipher for glimpsing certain broad strokes of the character of their parents. One case, in particular, the woman was retired and sitting on the beach with her family. She had spent a career in some of the poorest black schools in the city--she was white. And she was trying to sell me on anarchist literature, the kind I was exposed to and sold on when I was 13 or 14 and first going out to the hardcore punk shows in Wrigleyville at the Cubby Bear. When I suggested to her that the societal crisis we faced was less a problem of the accumulation of power and more to do with a power vacuum at the lowest levels of the society--which allowed the accumulation of power as a symptom--she actually became enraged. When I mentioned the Catholic Church and the Pope, she ended the conversation with the rabid denunciation, "Fuck the Pope!" I felt horrible, her husband and adult daughter collected her and they left muttering apologies, but I was the one to blame. Here was a woman so passionate about her role as a teacher... so committed to her children... and so disillusioned by her societies failing to meet their needs... in a context where she, no doubt, was seen as the symbolic representative of that system and society... that she had become unbalanced. And here she was, surrounded by those with the best vantage to see what had happened to her, helpless in anything but merely to be with her... on the beach in Hyde Park where you found the single most idyllic spot to withdraw from the field and enjoy the garden--so to speak--and I brought her write back to that battle--a battle she obviously viewed as a hopeless loss. I am haunted by the memory, by the look on her face and the face of her husband--who actually apologized to me. It was though I had taunted a mortally wounded soldier fresh from the battle for his cowardice.
yes, I would have slapped their faces and give them a piece of my mind, and storm out. They are self entitled, ungrateful and selfish little shits who are proof that no father, no smacking, and mothers wanting to be their kids friend, rather than their parent produces these children.
@@charlesjurgus I went to totally ordinary public schools in new york and NONE of the people in ANY of my classes acted like this. Except maybe the day before a holiday break or in the last week of school when all of the grades have already been finalized and the teachers are no longer trying to teach anything. If you behaved this way in my school you would have A: instantly failed the class and have been totally screwed and B: get expelled from the school.
OMG, more like "Jamie's Nightmare School"! There was so much fidgeting, and interruptions...it was driving me crazy! Mary could barely move on from one point to the next.
I was shocked and appalled at the behavior of these students. They were either bored or on some sort of drugs! What a waste of time for the brilliant and engaging Mary Beard. Obviously, the song, "There will always be an England" is in doubt if these ignorant and disrespectful kids are its future!
I wanted to be a teacher, but now I want something challenging and rewarding..I'm going to be a dog trainer! On a serius note, this is the result of the massifiction of education, some people aren't cut for it, they would be better off, and much happier picking potatos on a field. (Also, there is no brazilian language, only portuguese.)
ADHD is the most minor disability there is. It's nothing compared with Downs syndrome, blindness, deafness, chronic illness or Autism. It can be cured and easily controlled, or prevented in the first place by adequate parenting. Most kids that get "diagnosed" with ADHD have been raised by their TV's and lived off a diet of junk food filled with behaviour changing chemicals and E numbers. It's an insult to call it a disability, these kids CAN learn and overcome lack of manners and focus.
At the end, some students do talk to her and one shakes her hand. So yes. Some do at least. Keep in mind, these are kids. They seem more like Jr. High students than high school level in their behavior though. How they act in class isn't necessarily what's going on in their minds.
Dont know why everyone is saying they are disrespectful or bad, I thought that they were really well behaved certainly more so than the schools I've been in before.
Some teachers like a challenge. It's also a greater achievement to teach someone who originally didn't want to learn or thought themselves incapable of learning.
That's up to the teacher to both get the student interested and at the very least teach manners. And I think Marry Beard was just substituting this lesson. She talks about the "headmaster" will later show them tomorrow how to submit the the assignment online. So her job primarily would be to get the class interested. The manners part would be for their full time teacher of that class. And no matter what, people (kids or adults) are gonna do what they're gonna do anyway. But I agree. That needs to be addressed by someone. Not Beard. She's a visiting teacher, and that would have thrown everyone off, and they would have ignored everything she had to say.
At the end some of them do go thank her and shake her hand and talk. I can tell I'm getting old. Some of their behavior seems very annoying with their head down or playing with their garments. Probably because I'm imagining myself teaching them. I did teach for a corporation 15 to 30 new hires classroom portion 30 days and on the job training for 3 months or longer.
Such foul mannered ignorants. What a waste of an opportunity for them. I've just seen that some instances of class disruption will have been removed from this film!!! I think this country is doomed when it has this attitude towards education and self-improvement. Shut up and listen!!
The youth of today...do they not realise how uncool they are....damp rags. I cant watch this, only in 2 mins and I am saddened by the vibe coming off them.
That's the trick to teaching the young. And it's difficult. Takes heavy planning then throwing away that plan for something else. I think Mary Beard does a good job getting a captive audience to participate and at least marginally be interested. Anyway, this is why teaching is hard. The students are asking the same thing, "What's the point? Latin is a dead language. And my prospects after school aren't that great... or my career plans have little to do with ancient Latin. I have no idea how this will be relevant ever in my life after the assignment and/or test." Kids are less courteous and more obvious when they're bored or otherwise distracted. While adults can often hide all that.
I wish I had had a teacher like Mary Beard!
The patience of the teachers who are attempting to reach these kids is amazing.
I would have flipped if Mary Beard showed up to my school to teach latin. That woman is brilliant!
This woman is an excellent teacher, if only all schools had teachers with such passion
Mary Beard is a great communicator and obviously passionate about her field.
I recently watched Mary Beards "Meet the Romans" and was impressed with her passion for history and teaching. Love this woman.
It is interesting that Mary Beard almost had them. She tempted them. These kids are just so far gone, and yet, Mary Beard managed to keep their interest. It wasn't easy either. I would give my teeth to have a lecture from Mary Beard. She is definitely my hero. I got my degrees when I was much older and studied art history and my area of interest was the Ba of Naples before the eruption. I have read almost everything Mary Beard has written. I am a big fan. I hope they ended up appreciating her wonderful and brilliant style.
We love you Mary!
wow she is an amazing teacher!
Mary Beard is just awesome
I admire Mary Beard so much and am appalled by thesis respectful behaviour of these pupils. I don't normally approve of ancient Roman school discipline, but maybe this could be an exception.
Notice the way she's clearly taken time to try and learn all the kids names, would be honored to be in the classroom with her
Thank goodness there is another teacher who believes in the students, even when they don't believe in themselves. It only takes one great teacher to change a student's attitude.
I would love to attend that class... especially with that marvelous teacher...
To everyone talking down about these students or their parents: relax! Take out the rods from your behinds and try to remember that they were just kids, just like we all were. If you never did something stupid as a youth, then congrats! The rest of us mortals actually know that we were not always polite, kind and motivated all the time. No matter what our parents efforts were. Or do you blame your parents for all the flaws that you have? And will you expect your kids (and the general public) to blame you for everything that they are doing wrong?
These kids were there for a reason and were put together for that particular reason. They are the same as you but got stuck somewhere. The reasons could be many but blaming them will not help. Maybe they had a difficult uprising, maybe something else happened that made them loose their interest/confidence or maybe they were lacking a proper teacher. But they were in that great school, with awesome teachers, to see how they could get their motivation back.
As teacher myself I know that the best way to helm them move forward is by motivation and support. Maybe at times it feels dire but never do I feel like I'm wasting my time because i know that there is hope and and if I can not see that then how can I expect the students to see it. Mary were exactly where she needed to be and did what she needed to do.
Teenagers may not have developed a broad sense of empathy and understanding of how their behavior might effect others. But I'm guessing that most of the persons who are commenting here on this particular video are adults; Please be good examples for everyone who might look up to you. Do not lead by example by talking trash, but rather focus on what you think you can do to improve their, in your, world.
gold among the comments
"remember that they were just kids, just like we all were" that's exactly what I'm doing, and I am imagining myself being a high school student in that class. I would be well annoyed with my peers...there was so much interruptions and disrespectful behaviour, I would barely have been able to learn anything. 20 minutes goes by and how far did we get? Rufus is drunk?? I would also have been annoyed with Mary's attempt to appeal to the students' interests by using an example "if you were going to the store to buy cigarettes and pizza...". I would have accepted that this probably WAS required to grab the students' attention, and I would have wished she could have used a more enlightened example. I also would have been secretly annoyed with the brothel reference, and glossing over the sociological and political significance of prostitution in the Empire. And I would have been severely annoyed and put off by the boys' reaction. I would have smiled slightly, and thought to myself "Ugh, I'm in a class with hairless monkeys. Well, this is why I only date 40 year old men and not my ignorant male peers. No chance I'm picking one of these oafs for the prom!"
But...I'm a girl. And a feminist. That' probably explains why I valued my education. Nothing gets handed to girls for free, and I KNEW IT.
The older I get the more I understand the phrase "youth is wasted on the young". These kids are so ungrateful - seriously? MARY BEARD IS TEACHING YOU LATIN !!
I don't mean that to sound condescending, My first reaction was "What horrible kids" but having watched a few more episodes, I really warmed to them
They're lucking enough to even be learning Latin. All we had at school was French, which they nearly dropped from GCSE as so few people wanted to do it, lol.
The "et cetera" thing was a good starting point, as it is often widely misunderstood.
In Brazil We speak portuguese and its very connected to latin great class mary beard is fantastic
Brincos diera por tenerla como profesora aunque sea por unas cuantas lecciones. La admiro.
Jamie's Dream School was set up by Jamie Oliver to help give 20 drop out kids to have a second chance of an education. So this is a class of kids who gave up on school, knowing that makes me think their attention wasn't too bad!
To Sir, With Love.
I don't think its possible to reform these kids when they're all together, because they perpetuate their collective attitude, it makes the power of peer pressure much greater. If they had started in good school, with other students that are dedicated then they would be able to do well.
I am a Latin teacher in Peru and send my congratulations to Mary Beard. She is a heroine for teaching those pupils. I havent found these stuff pupils in my classes in Peru. I thought my pupils were terrible but I was wrong.
' when the student is ready the teacher will come ' ,... this classroom is a mixed bag.
I have been in worse. And if you have taught something, the red flags become more obvious.
In the end, they're kids. Same goes with adults. It's just adults more often tend to at least pretend interest.
She is awesome! I wish I could join her classes.
I was fortunate enough to run into this lady last year at the Augustus exhibition at Rome in the Scuderie. To me she is the equivalent of a rock star, I could only dream of sitting in on a class taught by her. What a waste of her precious time trying to instil knowledge in such empty heads. Nevertheless, I tip my hat to her for trying.
Beard does not mention the most important reason for youngsters to study languages, including Latin. Apparently the language you speak shapes your thoughts ( eg the french don't have imaginative authors like tolkien and cs lewis etc, but we don't have french philosophy.) So the more languages you have, the more you can think!
I love Mary, she's great
While it does leave me with a sense of woe, it's also heartening to see that kids are just as snotty, stupid and destined to failure as here in the States. Cheers!
Mary has often been faced with the question of 'Why did the Roman Empire' fall? Well, here's the answer. I bet Roman schools of the 4th century AD were a bit like this. Being the great empire, makers of everything great & tje greatest people of all; why do we need to work hard, we have everything. That attitude of nothing can touch us cannot be taken for granted. We had an empire (allegedly) but it's gone now. I rest my point. Education & knowledge is not what it was.
Try an American school!
I would have loved to have learnt Latin, it's a disapline as well as a language. Mary Beard could teach me Latin any day!
What a brave lady! She soldiers on ...
Mary sei un mito!!
The behavior of the students, especially the male students at the back, is just appalling. Yet still, Beard manages to engage them.
I don't think she engaged them. I think that they just trod water until the end of the class. I think the presence of the camera actually managed to elicit better behaviour than normal.
When guests came to school we were on our best behavior
I think the big guy in the back could actually excel when properly engaged. His questions showed he has intelligence
have these kids been lobotomised?
hahahaha
No, just indoctrinated by poorly educated Social Scientists posing as teachers who regard the teaching of Latin (and Greek) as elitist and thus to be outlawed.
@@thebaronpaddington6068 That doesn't make any sense because she is trying to teach it. WTF?
Children are routinely lobotomised in the school system
man, I am 18 and am teaching myself latin at home, and I'd love to have her for my teacher.
Those kids were so privileged I would have given anything to have been in that class with Dams Mary Beard 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
She's a born teacher , these kids ARE listening !!
Also, Latin hasn't been used as a living language for a very long time. Language drift and lack of experience with native speakers means nobody speaks like "Romans". The Romans didn't all speak like Romans either. We're talking about an empire encompassing a massive geographical area with many other languages and cultures. Point being, I think all the pretentious complaining about her pronunciation is pretty petty and meaningless.
I would take Latin but our little po dunk town library is not adequate and has no primary sources in Greek or Latin. I would love to relocate to Missoula, Montana where the University has classical and mediaeval program. A nice library with primary sources in Latin and rugged wild mountains full of wildlife in my backyard.
Wow hats off to that teacher for putting up with those dumb and disrespectful kids. Is this typical behavior of students/classrooms in England?
Edit: I looked it up and see that these students were dropouts and indeed is for some type of reality show in an effort to reach these particular students.
This was a tv show which took the more disruptive and not as clever teenagers and basically gave them lessons in different subjects with experts in that field
Samzy2010...yes, it was pearls before swine.
A world class Roman historian teaching oblivious, self absorbed children. margaritas ante porcos !
Good effort with a fine language.
Is this high school for "challenged" kids? I was interested in this but after 20 min I couldn't go on. I remember being bored in college sometimes but no one behaved like this
They´re staggeringly ignorant for 17-year-olds. I knew Roman history and more when I was 10 years old in primary school in the 1950s!
You are a lucky person. When kids were taught things at school, not indoctrinated
All these kids are dropouts they are not the best and brightest
Those kids are too young to realize what a wonderful opportunity they have to learn Latin from Mary Beard. Someday they will know. Until then, I hope they will at least learn some measure of the beautiful Latin language.
I feel like this is a parody of an actual class with Mary Beard. These students are awful. In addition to what we see, let me quote part of the description... "Moments of class disruption may have been removed!"
I love her 🌹
God love her!
What ungrateful children, being taught by Mary Beard.
little shits
I think these kids are probably fairly good examples of students... just think of thirty kids, less obedient, in a single class room! I have met and had long conversations with a few teachers from schools in Chicago--some retired, some still teaching. One thing I was struck by, in a couple of them, was a demeanor of inscrutability that suggested the weathering of tens of thousands of shrill and contentious ids.
Another thing, in the most impressive of them, was a quiet resignation forged by the perception of not only the child's motivation to act out, but it's psychological source back to the parents--that the child was a walking, talking cipher for glimpsing certain broad strokes of the character of their parents. One case, in particular, the woman was retired and sitting on the beach with her family. She had spent a career in some of the poorest black schools in the city--she was white. And she was trying to sell me on anarchist literature, the kind I was exposed to and sold on when I was 13 or 14 and first going out to the hardcore punk shows in Wrigleyville at the Cubby Bear. When I suggested to her that the societal crisis we faced was less a problem of the accumulation of power and more to do with a power vacuum at the lowest levels of the society--which allowed the accumulation of power as a symptom--she actually became enraged. When I mentioned the Catholic Church and the Pope, she ended the conversation with the rabid denunciation, "Fuck the Pope!"
I felt horrible, her husband and adult daughter collected her and they left muttering apologies, but I was the one to blame. Here was a woman so passionate about her role as a teacher... so committed to her children... and so disillusioned by her societies failing to meet their needs... in a context where she, no doubt, was seen as the symbolic representative of that system and society... that she had become unbalanced. And here she was, surrounded by those with the best vantage to see what had happened to her, helpless in anything but merely to be with her... on the beach in Hyde Park where you found the single most idyllic spot to withdraw from the field and enjoy the garden--so to speak--and I brought her write back to that battle--a battle she obviously viewed as a hopeless loss. I am haunted by the memory, by the look on her face and the face of her husband--who actually apologized to me. It was though I had taunted a mortally wounded soldier fresh from the battle for his cowardice.
I was just thinking the same thing.
yes, I would have slapped their faces and give them a piece of my mind, and storm out. They are self entitled, ungrateful and selfish little shits who are proof that no father, no smacking, and mothers wanting to be their kids friend, rather than their parent produces these children.
@@charlesjurgus I went to totally ordinary public schools in new york and NONE of the people in ANY of my classes acted like this. Except maybe the day before a holiday break or in the last week of school when all of the grades have already been finalized and the teachers are no longer trying to teach anything. If you behaved this way in my school you would have A: instantly failed the class and have been totally screwed and B: get expelled from the school.
Danielle !!!
I swear I have seen the girl at 9:25 before, I even think she is local to Alton Hants where I live, who is she??
+Neil Baker I think she is in EastEnders, playing Lola
Yes, thanks! I'd forgotten all about this vid
a chance to learn
Is this a remedial class?
OMG, more like "Jamie's Nightmare School"! There was so much fidgeting, and interruptions...it was driving me crazy! Mary could barely move on from one point to the next.
Actually, Chloe originally comes from a Greek name, Khloe, and was used to represent Demeter the goddess of fertility.
There should be a whip in the classroom. 😁 😁
And you wonder why we are headed for, indeed already in, the shitter?!? Look at these children! This is our future.
So sad that these kids are going out into the wider world shortly with such tiny brains and so little interest in learning anything about it.
Come on....I thought a lot of them responded really well.....
loquimur.
Gratias ago.
Real teachers work with what they have and not what they would like to have.
I was shocked and appalled at the behavior of these students. They were either bored or on some sort of drugs! What a waste of time for the brilliant and engaging Mary Beard. Obviously, the song, "There will always be an England" is in doubt if these ignorant and disrespectful kids are its future!
Jamie Oliver's directors love to emphasise the disinterest of the pupils at the cost of those who actually enjoy the lessons
I wanted to be a teacher, but now I want something challenging and rewarding..I'm going to be a dog trainer! On a serius note, this is the result of the massifiction of education, some people aren't cut for it, they would be better off, and much happier picking potatos on a field. (Also, there is no brazilian language, only portuguese.)
Cur ait latine loqui neminem? Verba haec nempe non verum. Iam omnes nos enim latine loquuntur.
MisterBaAcKiTcH Salve! Amo Mary Beard! Quoque, sunt circa viii verbo in latin dicere "occidere". Sorry I've never translated th other way round before
damn kids
ADHD is the most minor disability there is. It's nothing compared with Downs syndrome, blindness, deafness, chronic illness or Autism. It can be cured and easily controlled, or prevented in the first place by adequate parenting. Most kids that get "diagnosed" with ADHD have been raised by their TV's and lived off a diet of junk food filled with behaviour changing chemicals and E numbers.
It's an insult to call it a disability, these kids CAN learn and overcome lack of manners and focus.
Do they not know who Mary Beard is? Wow.
At the end, some students do talk to her and one shakes her hand. So yes. Some do at least.
Keep in mind, these are kids. They seem more like Jr. High students than high school level in their behavior though. How they act in class isn't necessarily what's going on in their minds.
Dont know why everyone is saying they are disrespectful or bad, I thought that they were really well behaved certainly more so than the schools I've been in before.
Maria optima magistra linguae latinae est.
I don't know how the Local Education Authority manages to recruit any teachers at all to face those repellent little jackasses
Some teachers like a challenge. It's also a greater achievement to teach someone who originally didn't want to learn or thought themselves incapable of learning.
Wake up, boy, you with one of the distinguished professor in the class, and you SLEEP???!
What the....????
That's up to the teacher to both get the student interested and at the very least teach manners.
And I think Marry Beard was just substituting this lesson. She talks about the "headmaster" will later show them tomorrow how to submit the the assignment online. So her job primarily would be to get the class interested. The manners part would be for their full time teacher of that class.
And no matter what, people (kids or adults) are gonna do what they're gonna do anyway.
But I agree. That needs to be addressed by someone. Not Beard. She's a visiting teacher, and that would have thrown everyone off, and they would have ignored everything she had to say.
At the end some of them do go thank her and shake her hand and talk.
I can tell I'm getting old. Some of their behavior seems very annoying with their head down or playing with their garments. Probably because I'm imagining myself teaching them. I did teach for a corporation 15 to 30 new hires classroom portion 30 days and on the job training for 3 months or longer.
OH FUCK OFF THIS IS FUCKING ENGLAND MATE
Maria est bonum doctorem, sed lectionibus Ofsted essent describere iudicantur.
….their teens, not scholars….
pulchrvm video
The privilege of being taught by this exceptional lady wasted on a bunch of boisterous children more interested on looking cool than learning...
"What 'bout Brazilian?" Modern Western Culture everybody.
@rocsgirl. Haha agreed
Chloe is a Greek name, not Latin.
I would've loved to have learnt Latin at school, much less been taught Latin by Mary Beard.
I’d hate to be a teacher there. I was a teacher for forty years in Chile, and I NEVER saw attitudes like these. What lack of respect for the teacher!
I would've given anything to be in this Latin class rather than my nun that taught us in Catholic school.
Dream teacher with nightmare students! Don't British parents do their job?
Such foul mannered ignorants. What a waste of an opportunity for them. I've just seen that some instances of class disruption will have been removed from this film!!! I think this country is doomed when it has this attitude towards education and self-improvement. Shut up and listen!!
Not true. They speak "Non - Standard English".
to be fair, grammar is quite hard
‘Cigerettes and pizza’
I fear a bunch of twits! How irreverent. Mary Beard, however, is brilliant.
Nobody gave her any hints about haaaaaaaaaa teenagers
These kids seem like they don't appreciate Mary at all. Lazy, dressed up, etc.
The youth of today...do they not realise how uncool they are....damp rags. I cant watch this, only in 2 mins and I am saddened by the vibe coming off them.
A dinosaur of methodology.
Boy! Am I glad I am not a teacher?
School kids are terrible.
Middle school or Jr. High is the worst.
Weird bored, fidgety, youth of Britain....gawd help Britain.
So British school kids act alot like USA school kids.....
Pinky-nibbler shows promise.
Haaaaaaaaaa poor woman
tuff work, why bother…. they dont want to learn
That's the trick to teaching the young. And it's difficult. Takes heavy planning then throwing away that plan for something else.
I think Mary Beard does a good job getting a captive audience to participate and at least marginally be interested.
Anyway, this is why teaching is hard. The students are asking the same thing, "What's the point? Latin is a dead language. And my prospects after school aren't that great... or my career plans have little to do with ancient Latin. I have no idea how this will be relevant ever in my life after the assignment and/or test."
Kids are less courteous and more obvious when they're bored or otherwise distracted. While adults can often hide all that.
@@jmitterii2 waste of time but good luck