Modern view of teachers

The cultural image of teacher in the modern American consciousness is a complex one.  Education is a foundational element to our society with the vast majority of people having attended school for long periods of time.  This collective experience by the general population generates a complex image, which I believe the group collage work demonstrated.

I found in very interesting the social and marketing groups seemed to find imagery that seemed focused on elementary schools whereas the Hollywood group found the imagery much more focused on high school.  There were secondary considerations that occurred after locating the image with regards to time in an educational life.  Gender, disposition, race and student relationship seem to be near polar opposites.  As previously stated, I view those as secondary to the location.

In general, all people have a more fond relationship with their memories of their elementary education than their high school education.  I attribute much of that to the developmental turmoil of adolescence as well as the bright eyed optimism of youth.   The result is when we think of the idealized teacher, we tend to think of elementary school teachers.  That is the reason that the reason that the marketing and social group found that opinion in their search.  Hollywood’s take is different.  A story without conflict is uninteresting.  So when producing a movie about education, we automatically gravitate toward high school because of the great amounts of perceived conflict.