The Mark of a Teacher

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15 жыл бұрын

This is a video created from "The Changing of the Guard" Twilight Zone Episode 99 of the third season. The video ponders the question, "What kind of a mark can we, as educators, make?"

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@dkerlee 8 жыл бұрын

My dad is the last student to speak.

@Scripturegirl. 8 жыл бұрын

+Drew Kerlee No way that is so..AWESOME.!!.

@maluspezzano7928 6 жыл бұрын

Really?

@georgeorwell4534 6 жыл бұрын

How wonderful Drew! Tell your father well done!

@57highland 6 жыл бұрын

Dennison Kerlee, right?

@57highland 6 жыл бұрын

"Dickie Wise" was a semi-regular on "Leave It To Beaver". He was Wally's friend Chester. Did your Dad do any other 60's TV programs?

@americanpatriot9865 3 жыл бұрын

My absolute most favorite Twilight Zone episode! This episode was magnificently done! Donald Pleasance was brilliant! .... as was Rod Serling!

@williamanthony9090 4 жыл бұрын

Perhaps the Zone's most under-rated episode!

@JustJoe827 9 ай бұрын

An incredibly beautiful episode of Twilight Zone. I had such a teacher in 1978. God bless you, Mr Bonnet.

@Hemlock54 11 жыл бұрын

"This particular changing of the guard... I wouldn't have it any other way."

@21stcenturysucks54 4 жыл бұрын

This Twighlight episode made me cry. I grew up watching the re-runs.

@pacificdragon1 5 жыл бұрын

One of my Favorite Episodes of the Twilight Zone!

@Epiclater 8 жыл бұрын

This episode can really change a person. It just puts a realization of what an impact someone has had on you, and what they have taught you. Always good to give someone a reminder on their remarkable presence.

@goscuba2 6 жыл бұрын

good point jack

@fjb4932 3 жыл бұрын

Jake, Unfortunately, there's a flip side to that coin ...

@AML0702 11 жыл бұрын

Just watched this episode, I cried during this scene because I was so moved. Teachers may never realize the mark they end up leaving on their students' lives. I think teachers of any level can appreciate this and aspire to inspire young impressionable students as this old professor had. He was ready to end his life upon his retirement, feeling as though he did not do enough when in fact he left a legacy bigger than he could imagine. Definitely a favorite episode.

@Lanceawright 3 жыл бұрын

I'm not crying... YOU'RE crying. Mr. Fifield, you are missed.

@jkmorrison1013 3 жыл бұрын

the best Twilight Zone ever, especially when they bow their heads in reverence before they go back

@johnmolina3284 2 жыл бұрын

No, that would be "Monsters are due on Maple Street." It's like it was filmed this morning.

@jkmorrison1013 2 жыл бұрын

@@johnmolina3284 Disagree John, although I do remember that one and it had its lessons and merits. I just think it was a little far-fetched. I love this one one because it shows a man his worth, an old man near the end of his life, which he thinks has been spent in vain. He presents an after-life in reverence (I believe in the Biblical accounts) and over all it is respectful, encouraging, redeeming, reverential, kind-hearted, emotional, and it overcomes despair. All with platic snow and a backdrop of Christmas, and honoring the dead of WW II and other heroes. I love this one.

@johnmolina3284 2 жыл бұрын

@@jkmorrison1013 it's NOT far-fetched as long as they remain within the logic of TZ episodes. I don't remember if I even saw this one. Pleasance is known for portraying over-the-top characters: "Cul-de-Sac," "Soldier Blue," etc. This one seems too low-key. I would argue, as a writer myself, WHERE is the conflict???

@jkmorrison1013 2 жыл бұрын

@@johnmolina3284 All of these things are subjective, like chocolate or vanilla preferences. I know the "conflict" angle, I have been writing professionally (mostly for newspapers) for almost 30 years and I never did agree that a story has to have some kind of conflict in order to be interesting. But a man becoming suicidal (on Christmas Eve to boot) thinking his life has been wasted only to be redeemed at the last minute by the ghosts of those he helped and influenced is a pretty good fictional plot or angle or conflict to me, especially as opposed to routine Americans in the early 1960s logically concluding that aliens from another planet have infiltrated their ranks on Maple Street because the lights went out. But I enjoyed that episode also, and don't see any need to argue the point over a subjective preferece. So I will just say that I agree or agree to agree.

@johnmolina3284 2 жыл бұрын

@@jkmorrison1013 What the blank!!! In narrative or dramatic writing, it's imperative!!! Read Lajos Egri.

@MrDredScott 9 жыл бұрын

This episode was directed by my uncle, Robert Ellis Miller. Glad you enjoyed it.

@Scripturegirl. 8 жыл бұрын

+Scott Miller Scotty, AND MR.M DO NOT RELATE. (As far as 👀 know.).

@Scripturegirl. 8 жыл бұрын

+Scott Miller A FORMER ELDER IN A CHURCH I USED 2 GO 2 AS A KID IN CA..THE ELDER'S NAME WAS RICHARD, AND HIS LATE WIFE ROSILY. BUT MILLER IS A COMMON LAST NAME. 😮

@Scripturegirl. 7 жыл бұрын

My b.f.f's last name is miller.

@Scripturegirl. 6 жыл бұрын

Have we met before.?. Cause I knew a Scotty miller in ca, we met in this century.

@Scripturegirl. 6 жыл бұрын

My best friend Breanna.miller, her dads name is Robert.miller.

@janeyrevanescence12 10 жыл бұрын

This makes me cry because I can't help but think of a good friend of mine who died in a car accident. He was a good man who helped so many people, yet shortly before he passed, he confided to me that he felt like all of his hard work was for nothing and that all people did was take and take. When he died, so many people went to his funeral and told his parents about how he helped them in times of trouble. I wish that I can tell him that he did make a difference for so many people.

@Scripturegirl. 6 жыл бұрын

Long distance call makes me cry, because my grandma died in July 2002. 😱😭

@completesentences2125 6 жыл бұрын

By taking the mark that he left on you and applying it to your life and outlook on how to treat others, you're letting him know.

@brucekatsumata6922 4 жыл бұрын

😉 I'm sure he knows now!

@coleparker 2 жыл бұрын

This is one those fine episodes that one appreciates or relates too as we get older and moves on from one phase of life to another.

@jkapp374 3 жыл бұрын

One of the greatest episodes of this classic show...great message! THANK YOU for posting this

@aznsensation141 9 жыл бұрын

this makes me miss my teacher that introduced me to this show. Rip Mr. Hermele

@Blackwater_House 3 жыл бұрын

My High School Principal told Me that there were two kinds of people in the world, Takers (who took everything society had to offer, but gave nothing in return) and Givers (who freely gave to Society but took very little). He hoped that I’d be a Giver. For 30 Years I was a Volunteer in an Emergency Service Organisation. The only thing I really took from that was “a Medal with Clasp” for Meritorious Service, in hazardous circumstances at risk of My Own Life. I think he would be proud of that.

@Terry-hm4bs 27 күн бұрын

I Know he would be proud of you!!! God bless you Sir!

@michaelh7429 6 жыл бұрын

Will always remember this episode.....I'm 66

@catherinethompson5325 Жыл бұрын

This is an absoloute fave of mine . This also reminds me of one of my teachers who pushed us really hard .Well there was some talk going around about they were going to fire him . All of us kids got together and went to the school board meeting and told them in our own way why they should not fire him . I believe I told them that he was the reason I was going to Boston college in the fall and the only reason and if it had not been for him i probably would not have even thought about going to college .so Thank You Dr . Harvey Limwell . May you rest in peace .He passed in 1983 .

@angelacarleton9575 5 жыл бұрын

I love this episode because it says a lot about a "good" teacher. How I wished each teacher would realize how important they are to each student. Also, the reality of how students should believe in themselves. Greatest profession ever!

@udarpavarota396 5 жыл бұрын

We all have teachers we can't stop admiring.

@terryleeschiller8515 3 жыл бұрын

This Episode made me Cry. I have students still come up to me saying that I made a difference in their Life..

@Tfististhis 4 жыл бұрын

Always teach someone something they didn’t know and learn something you didn’t

@dmmchugh3714 3 жыл бұрын

This my all-time favorite episode. Great writing, acting ; wonderful message. I always cry when watching this episode.

@kwd3109 2 жыл бұрын

This episode could have been about a parent, grandparent or any family member who cared enough to inspire and nurture a young person. "But the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child".

@lastrada52 4 жыл бұрын

Donald Pleasance was always a great first-class actor. He is stunning, as well, in the film (based on a Boadway play he also acted in) -- "The Caretaker." Intense. He should've received an Academy Award it's that's good. It's on KZfaq.

@FrenchmanOfSteel1 8 жыл бұрын

One of my favourite episodes of the whole series, if not my one favourite. As a teacher, I wish I knew the impact I've made on my students. And the quote from Horace Mann resonates with me as it sums up the reason I do what I do. If only today's students were that respectful of their teachers. And grateful. Good video.

@georgeorwell4534 6 жыл бұрын

I teach as well, and I saw this as a child. It's amazing how this episode impacts me now.

@alexmcdowell8868 5 жыл бұрын

Brian washing kids with gov books and curriculum no thanks....

@APES2L8 5 жыл бұрын

Time will tell.

@freddyboombatz 5 жыл бұрын

I cried over this episode. I never thought a TZ episode would make me emotional.

@wilshirewilshire2303 4 жыл бұрын

@@alexmcdowell8868 lol, you sound like one of those people who fatigues at their home who march up and down day in and day out preparing for when NATO troops are sent to confiscate your guns.

@COMMANDOF4F4 11 жыл бұрын

I HAVE NEVER FORGOTTEN THIS EPISODE. IT HELPED ME MY WHOLE LIFE IN DOING THE RIGHT AND COURAGEOUS THING. I ALWAYS REMIND THE NEW TEACHERS OF TODAY, OF THE IMPACT THEY HAVE ON THEIR STUDENTS LIVES. COMMANDER WALTER K. VAN DER VEER

@christophernavarro1802 6 жыл бұрын

Its Donald Pleasance.

@brianrunyon266 4 жыл бұрын

His first American role, I believe.

@antonbruce1241 3 жыл бұрын

And in one of his finest moments. A character filled with disgust at himself who thinks he wasted his life, only to learn from those he taught that his life was not only not a waste, but an inspiration to them all. Wonderful acting, fantastic writing, and all in all one of the Twilight Zone's best.

@Vesnicie 5 жыл бұрын

It's a Twilight Zone episode made of equal parts It's a Wonderful Life and Mr Holland's Opus.

@AnnaLVajda 2 жыл бұрын

Sad then.

@arthurzettel6618 2 жыл бұрын

This Twilight Zone episode should remind us that, it's not what you take with you but what you leave behind once you are gone.

@dannyblankenship8154 Жыл бұрын

One of my all time favorite episodes proving that people can touch lives and have impact on others as those memories last a lifetime, believe me I had teachers and professors that I've felt that have made an impact on me!

@francistorchio 2 жыл бұрын

When I look back on my life, I realize that the people who had the greatest influence on my life were teachers from primary school to high school and finally college. Sports stars, rock stars and movie stars never influenced my life, they were just amusements but never had a positive influence on me.

@cathywaller8469 5 жыл бұрын

I love this episode and I love the Original Classic Twilight Zone

@Borjack58 11 жыл бұрын

Simply one of the most under rated episodes about uplifting the human spirit. We have gone from television episodes such as this to the gutter with the Kardashians. Very shameful, this why our culture is at the bottom of the heap.

@jerryvivanco4898 4 жыл бұрын

Couldn't agree more! Sigh..........................

@jerryvivanco4898 3 жыл бұрын

@East Prussian 1st Infantry Golden age indeed! That's why KZfaq is about my most favorite thing in the world!!!! I'm 63 yrs young, so I obviously feel very sentimental about this time period.

@PhilipKaskela 3 жыл бұрын

There was gutter trash tv back in the day too, just as there is good tv today too. People are all the same.

@jayrodr897 2 жыл бұрын

You know the Civil Rights Act hadn't passed when this episode aired, right? If you want to have a culture war, the 50s isn't the best era to hang your hat on.

@angelacarleton9575 5 жыл бұрын

What frightens me there are not enough teachers that are willing to teach anymore due to the lack of respect and consideration given to them. I feel deep sorrow for the teaching profession.

@AnnaLVajda 2 жыл бұрын

I'm more concerned about the well educated who can not apply their knowledge in todays society intelligence is almost obsolete treated as a disease or mental disorder instead or revered it is so uncommon now particularly ethics and morals investigative reasoning etc. Bygone era. Better to just be alone with your thoughts if you can not conform at least keep your mind and soul free despite how your life is ruined otherwise.

@Tourist1967 3 жыл бұрын

A modernised version of "Goodbye, Mr Chips".

@elaineen1 8 жыл бұрын

I am seeing this clip and just realized a UCLA professor was murdered by an ex student. Students please tell your teachers at the end of the term how much you appreciate them. At UCLA we would give them a standing ovation on the last day of regular class.

@Vesnicie 5 жыл бұрын

I sent a personal email to a professor who, much like the man in this episode, tries to instill values in his students that will make them good citizens and human beings. It's a very endangered way of teaching, but it's the only way. He was retiring after that term so I hope he got some reassurance from my letter because he was so often frustrated by people's utter lack of caring or responsiveness.

@eclipsesonic 11 жыл бұрын

When I first watched this episode, I thought it was really good, but watching it for the second time just now, I totally forgot how powerful this episode was. Some things are worthy to be seen more than once, and this is one of them. A truly powerful and underrated episode. This is definitely going in my top ten list.

@Fromard 3 жыл бұрын

"Jack Glover sir. I'm not dead I just needed to know the homework chapters."

@terryleeschiller8515 3 жыл бұрын

LOL ❗

@TheDoctor1225 5 жыл бұрын

This episode reaches out on so very many levels and to so very many professions; as an EMT I also never know the impact that I may have had on people's lives, but believe that every one of us HAS an impact, for good or ill, even if we never know it. This episode is, absolutely, my favorite, and stands the test of time as a testimony to the good that we can do every day, in ways we cannot begin to imagine. The incomparable Donald Pleasence is the icing on the cake, as it were. Excellent video, excellent ideas, and well done!

@bachrocktheamericahatersan5799 3 жыл бұрын

Great scene.

@lianasoares8052 3 жыл бұрын

This episode reminded me of It’s a Wonderful Life (1946).

@MrGchiasson 2 жыл бұрын

I watched this episode when I was a boy...before it was a rerun. Bring back true classic education...the virtues those students mentioned are barely mentioned in schools today. It was a wonderful episode.

@DJ-vu9lx 5 жыл бұрын

Our teachers are so valuable. We don't honor them as we should.

@dutchholland163 2 жыл бұрын

The mark of an outstanding teacher; one whom all educators should emulate. Thank you for this wonderful episode.

@Cinemaniac87 3 жыл бұрын

We all impact each other in positive and negative ways i treat everyone the way i want to be treated i recommend others to do the same.

@BENJ1969 2 жыл бұрын

My favorite episode. Absolutely wonderful from start to finish, perfectly cast, and perfectly executed. Led by the practically flawless acting of Donald Pleasance.

@alchemist6098 2 жыл бұрын

This episode had a significant influence on me when I saw it in college. Now that I am faculty in a primarily undergraduate institution, I’ve thought of it often. It has reminded me of my obligation to my students and to the future. Now I wonder, where are the men and women of integrity. It seems as though corruption is so embolden that it no longer has the need to be covert….or has the world always been this shameless…and I’ve just been a foolish idealist? This seeing this episode again has been uplifting.

@femme-inist 11 жыл бұрын

This is one of my favorite episodes...wonderfully and brilliantly done

@ronaldjones5589 3 жыл бұрын

This was a GREAT EPISODE

@anothonypeterson3402 5 жыл бұрын

I love this episode too.I put it on once to show my sister and she said it's the best episode she's ever seen of the show. ...TONY

@KajiCarson 10 жыл бұрын

Bless my heart, this is human rocket fuel.

@lilybond6485 10 ай бұрын

This just showed up in my KZfaq feed from 14 years ago. Absolutely one of my favorite Twilight Zone episodes if not my favorite. Still brings tears to my eyes. So much meaning but -- I am feeling quite like Donald Pleasance right now.

@ppono 2 жыл бұрын

Rod was years ahead of his time and we will never see anyone come close to what he gave us in his mind.

@TheImmortalAvenger 3 жыл бұрын

This scene reminds me of a couple of quotes from Batman: The Animated Series. Batman: “As a kid, I used to watch you with my father. The Grey Ghost was my hero.” Grey Ghost: “So, it wasn’t all for nothing.” When you make genuinely lasting impacts on people’s lives, your efforts are NEVER in vain.

@coinbuyer-8605 11 ай бұрын

I have seen all Twilight Zone original series episodes; many multiple times . I have been professionally diagnosed by a psychiatrist as Schizoid Personality Disorder in adult. This means i have blunting of emotions. Despite this, every time I see this episode the tears flow.

@matthewkeith8605 3 жыл бұрын

*Ensure* And oh lord what an actor Donald Pleasance was. I had not fully realised.

@paulleckner8235 11 ай бұрын

The spirits of those who died came back to save him from committing suicide. Well done.

@JohnnyUTK 11 жыл бұрын

This is amazing

@patriciagentile4488 3 жыл бұрын

Wow! If only teachers would have that kind of positive, transcending influence today. They currently are sadly lacking.

@philipthomson7460 3 жыл бұрын

Donald Pleasance in one his best roles.

@grumpyoldgraymetalhead2441 5 жыл бұрын

What an incredible scene.

@rogerfunk7315 3 жыл бұрын

Goosebumps

@melaniemills4505 6 жыл бұрын

Mr. Hollands Opus decades before the actual movie. 😊

@onlyrick 3 жыл бұрын

A fine job, Mr. Mannix.

@sylviakruger5000 10 ай бұрын

Beautiful clip from "Changing Of The Guard", one of my favorite Twilight Zone episodes! The music for this...all of it touches my heart! Wish the complete half hour was on You tube, I appreciate this video, thank you!

@runningwild09 11 жыл бұрын

too much edits, but this si one of my many favorite episodes

@donaldschmidt2990 5 ай бұрын

It's an absolute masterpiece of a scene. This is the most heart-wrenching creation Rod Serling was ever associated with. Or practically anyone else!! I tear up like an aqueduct every time I watch this scene. The man who commented that the actor portraying Arty Beechcroft is his father truly hits home. What a sense of pride he must have felt watching his father live on through this scene. Just as all of us can live on through those, we impact in a moving, powerful way. In one sense, the episode Changing of the Guard will never change. It never fails to make you cry. May we all have half so powerful a play to tell.

@geraldsierveldphotographyi1406 2 жыл бұрын

The professor was the doctor from the early Halloween horror films

@elavke5441 3 жыл бұрын

Wow! Very very touching. Ashame most teachers aren't like that today. Should be the rule rather than the exception

@ileanaaltman3449 Жыл бұрын

The inspiring gift of knowledge should always be passed on

@kirkfeather1 Жыл бұрын

Very moving. So many of the WWII soldiers and sailors were still kids when they saw their first action.

@elizabethsutherland7932 15 күн бұрын

This episode makes me cry.

@robertmorris8997 3 жыл бұрын

I wonder what they have accomplished. All the privates I trained as a Drill Instructor. To a lesser extent, the Marines I trained in Avionics. And the real estate agents I have taught. It would be interesting to know the impact.

@thomasmartinscott 3 жыл бұрын

Truth is, you cannot teach without influencing. The question is, HOW is your influence going to reveal itself in their lives?

@richmotroni 4 ай бұрын

Although the Twilight Zone punishes the wicked, it also rewards the good. This is the best example of that.

@taumpytears6999 8 жыл бұрын

All those lessons and theyre all dead now so....so much for those lessons. Seriously , I think of this episode from time to time still ( im 46 and dangerously close to 47 ).. Its good to know that others remember this as well. An excellent video

@kenharvey8946 Жыл бұрын

This is wonderful moment in the history of TV. The two teachers who opened my world I never met Carl Sagan and Joseph Campbell. They opened me to new readings which would shape and form me. But as a person we all must be as Campbell put it ' Affective Agents ' in other lives. If you just help one person to do as Krishan advised Arjuna ' Become Yourself '.

@APES2L8 5 жыл бұрын

Nurture us all but not to die, to live. Each one teach one.

@reneehurt387 Жыл бұрын

This superlative episode helps to prove my point Devoted parents and teachers help to build a foundation that is difficult to sway or destroy

@hammond1994 5 жыл бұрын

What mark are we leaving on the world?

@Pogokoala 3 жыл бұрын

That white supremacists is real and the real victims are the people of color! Orange man is still awful! And kids have rights to be trans if they wanted too or for adult and children to hook up as Joe biden did with his grand daughter

@autimecerhone3677 2 жыл бұрын

This was so beautiful so touching yeah thank you for sharing this with me agape

@justoutofframemoviereviews656 3 жыл бұрын

Bartlett--! You can't fool me. You're that confounded rabbit who always wants Trix!

@christophermorgan3261 3 жыл бұрын

Great episode, wish I could see the entire thing.

@saudade2100 4 ай бұрын

“What we have loved, others will love, and we will teach them how; instruct them how the mind of man becomes a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells...” ― William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads

@verilyheld Жыл бұрын

It's amazing. I know this is purely fiction, yet still, tears come.

@jamesrivera4947 Жыл бұрын

Outstanding performance by Donald Pleasance in this TZ episode. For another example of his artistic range, check out his role in Columbo "Any Old Port in a Storm."

@iz-dat-chew 2 ай бұрын

These 2 Cat's are Setting up For A War From the Inner Pit's of HELL 😂... At least,With the Music,This Is A Battle to the Death...

@Hemlock54 10 жыл бұрын

EVERY Twilight Zone Marathon, I watch for this episode and "A Passage For Trumpet." Both of them leave me blubbering like an idiot. We can all make a mark on someone or something; a lot of times, we don't even know it.

@lazyrrr2411 5 жыл бұрын

. . . Move Over , hemlock 😓

@mosesCordovero-uw5vw 8 ай бұрын

Mr Holland's Opus

@JohnJBrowne11209 8 күн бұрын

We no longer have shows like this. We are diminished because of that.

@TheGamecock366 2 жыл бұрын

It's a shame Donad Pleasence didn't do any more Twilight Zone episodes. This was brilliant

@MarvinNicholson823 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

@josemoreno3334 Жыл бұрын

Many of todays teachers will never teach this ideas today. Sad.

@marknan5352 Жыл бұрын

I had two teachers in high school like this . One was at Pearl harbor on Dec . 7th.

@joematus410 2 жыл бұрын

Cool shows

@walterfechter8080 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@gerrynightingale9045 4 жыл бұрын

*I regard this as a 'Condemnation' of myself in that I betrayed 'what I should have been and done' rather than 'drifting and waiting"* ( *If there is any 'Hell' we create it for ourselves by knowing 'what you are' rather than being 'what you wanted to be' and knew inside was right and yet denied it* ) *The one thing I cannot forgive is betraying the woman I love by not being strong for her and my greatest fear in life is that some part of me may still exist after death...and if that is true, then that part will still love her and need her and I'll still be punished in death as I was in life*

@iz-dat-chew 3 ай бұрын

These 2 Cat's Are like Really,Really Going For the Juggular,This is not A Game,This Is Straight up WAR!!!