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	Monday, June 13, 2005

Coach Carter Review  (Reviews) The movie, starring Samuel Jackson, is based on a real life story of a basketball coach, who believes that life is more than winning basketball, and it is about winning in life.  He advocates being tough, and espouses discipline and education as central to success. It does have some good parallelisms in a workplace.  As a coach, he is also a manager, and a teacher, one who is responsible on training and motivating people how to move up in life.  And nothing is harder a job than to convince people about your principles of success and the means to get there than when they don't agree with you on what success is.  Coach Carter had difficulty when initially, the players already become bull headed after a small success, and also increasingly with parents and teachers who believed that dumbing down standards is the way to go.  They want success but do not understand that success, or at least sustainable success needs to be properly courted and won over. We all want the best for our people and our children, but are we prepared to be tough for them to get there? Great performance from Samuel Jackson, and it is great to see that Hollywood still turns out movies that motivates and inspires.  I see myself as being advantaged because I have read good books, and watch inspirational movies, and this is definitely one to see.  I may also get the book as I was informed it is also well-written and inspiring. Five stars out of five.   8:42:32 PM     comment []   trackback []