Stanley Kubrick Stanley Kubrick Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble. I would not think of quarreling with your interpretation nor offering any other, as I have found it always the best policy to allow the film to speak for itself. I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc.
Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.
I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old. This would shackle the viewer to reality, and I don't want this to happen to 2001. The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle. Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.