The movie opens with the four friends are walking to the examination room. The moment Vishnu recites how the students who got more than 90% study until the door opens, is a symbolic scene of how much students must study in order to pass their examination. This is similar to Frieire’s concept of Banking system in which currently dominating in most educational system all over the world. Nanj then wishes that the door never opened for fear of failure. It is his (Nanj) worst fear that he would fail the test and then result in his parents’ disappointment. This emotional vulnerability, as Carnoy and IDAC, put it is similar to how Akutsu sensei in the Queen Classroom (2005) installed in her students mind. The only difference in this is, no one directly installed the fear into Nanj’s heart. This implication of failure into the hearts of students also caused the personal reflex of being useless. When the result is revealed and Vishnu has scored only 94% which is 1% less than what he desperately wishes to get, fear crept to his hear that he would not be qualified enough for St. Peter and for his father’s standard. This qualification method by ranking students from top to bottom encourages a hierarchy in society instead of lessen it as school should do by providing equality for everyone. Similarly to caste system, by posting score on the board as happened in the movie and Ritesh and Nanj have to bend down to find their name is a symbolism of this system. Instead of being able to stand up with their head held high, they need to bend down and be at the bottom of the board.
As the movie introduces Mr. Baaji Rao by the scene of him, disregarding the curriculum, taught his students by watching movie instead of following the conventional curriculum bringing himself to the principle’s attention. By choosing teachable moment, Mr. Baaji Rao is a teacher who is very rare in this society where teachers tend to follow order and do what they are told instead of really teach their students when the moment comes. In a sense, Mr. Baaji Rao is similar to Kanamori Sensei.
F.A.L.T.U is an institution that comes into being from the power of union by all of the students. This university, instead of teaching conventional curriculum, it teaches transferable skills that would help students to gain skill for their future. The university has no official teacher, only videos from expert in each profession. Therefore, the knowledge is not colonized and there is no social structure appears in the university.
Sartrapai S.
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The movie opens with the four friends are walking to the examination room. The moment Vishnu recites how the students who got more than 90% study until the door opens, is a symbolic scene of how much students must study in order to pass their examination. This is similar to Frieire’s concept of Banking system in which currently dominating in most educational system all over the world. Nanj then wishes that the door never opened for fear of failure. It is his (Nanj) worst fear that he would fail the test and then result in his parents’ disappointment. This emotional vulnerability, as Carnoy and IDAC, put it is similar to how Akutsu sensei in the Queen Classroom (2005) installed in her students mind. The only difference in this is, no one directly installed the fear into Nanj’s heart. This implication of failure into the hearts of students also caused the personal reflex of being useless. When the result is revealed and Vishnu has scored only 94% which is 1% less than what he desperately wishes to get, fear crept to his hear that he would not be qualified enough for St. Peter and for his father’s standard. This qualification method by ranking students from top to bottom encourages a hierarchy in society instead of lessen it as school should do by providing equality for everyone. Similarly to caste system, by posting score on the board as happened in the movie and Ritesh and Nanj have to bend down to find their name is a symbolism of this system. Instead of being able to stand up with their head held high, they need to bend down and be at the bottom of the board.
Sartrapai S.
Carnoy, M. (1974). Education as cultural imperialism. New York: David Mccoy Company, Inc.
Freire, P. (1995). Pedagory of the oppressed. New York: Continuum International Publishing Group, Inc.
Futoshi, O., & Naoyuki, N. (Directors). (2005). The Queen's Classrom [Motion Picture].
IDAC Team. (1970). Danger school! Geneva: Other India Press.
Kaetsu, N. (Director). (2003). Children full of life [Motion Picture].
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