There is a good place on the tree: director and screenwriter, chief producer Wang and Cheng Runguo, chief planner Wang Wei, starring Du, Zhang Zhi and Zhang Xinfeng. The film exclusively landed on the iQiyi movie channel on July 28th, 2023.

The Educational Idea of Art Teachers in Shepherd Class

Examination-oriented education and quality education

Our primary and secondary education has gone through several rounds of educational reform, the purpose of which is to change from exam-oriented education to quality education. In the film of the art teacher's grazing class, facing the children who are about to take the senior high school entrance examination, the measures taken by the school are to improve the students' ability to take the exam. Therefore, we can see that the beauty of body sound and other subjects in the school exist in name only, and students' main energy is spent on learning culture classes.

For students with poor grades, such as Ba, Black Red Bull, Lishan and Wang Dakai, attending class is like listening to a gobbledygook. So, they have no hobbies and no future? Yes. The turning point of their fate was Lengxuan, an art teacher from the provincial capital. Under the influence of versatile art teachers, they gradually found their self-worth and embarked on different life paths.

The question of submission to reality or pursuit of ideals

In this film, everyone has their own ideals and faces their own practical difficulties: Wang Ba's father let his son inherit his father's career, and he likes painting; Ju Xue's mother wants her to take an art exam. She likes fashion design. Black Red Bull wants to join the army, but because of his father, he can't pass the political examination. Xue Nan likes playing the violin, but his father forces him to learn culture. ...

These contradictions seem difficult to reconcile, but they are solved with the encouragement and help of art teachers. In the end, each of them experienced an inner struggle, chose to bravely pursue their own ideals, and embarked on their own different life paths. Only Xue Nan suffered from depression, which made people cry.

The problem of suppressing education and appreciating education

Having said that, I have to mention the parents' education methods in the film. Parents in Wang Ba Chao and Xue Nan are very depressed in educating their children. They never look at the bright spots on their children, but only severely criticize their problems, so their children have no self-confidence.

Even if there are other talents, they are strangled in the cradle under the pressure of day after day. The art teacher Lengxuan's education method for students is appreciation and encouragement. He is good at discovering the bright spots of these "sheep class" children, encouraging them to bravely pursue their ideals and sprinkling sunshine in their hearts.