Dear OP,
the film was a time capsule of values, of all of it - the time the teacher spent with the student, the parents present and both reading, the modest but very restful rooms.

Not the hypersexualized consumption of today.


and the reference to Self-Reliance, the essay.

I wish someone showed this film today.

Students now would zone out at the non-ghettoized attire of the boy, they would suspect the teacher of meeting the student after class for sex.

it is such a different, deteriorated world we inhabit today.