GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — For a lot of families, movies help define the holiday season, and at the top of that list is usually “A Christmas Story”.
According to Quentin Schultze, author and professor emeritus at Calvin University, that’s because it’s more than just a classic movie. It teaches valuable life lessons too, as he explains in his book “You’ll Shoot Your Eye Out: Life Lessons from the Movie A Christmas Story”.
“I talked to a lot of people about the movie, and this is what they told me. They think it is a universal movie that deals with their time, whenever they lived, and their experiences wherever they had those experiences,” Schultze told me.
Quentin grew up listening to Jean Shepherd, the movie’s writer, on the radio and had a chance to teach with the storyteller at Calvin University.
“He [Shepherd] taught with me. He did not have the credentials to be a professor,” Schultze said. “And in …