The movie tackles important issues such as
- rote learning vs. understanding
- learning for passion vs. career success
- parental pressure
- mental health and suicide
- abuse of authority by faculty
Some of it is funny. Some of it is very sad.
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Memorisation or understanding?
Friends in India recommended my family watch 3 Idiots. It is the most commercially successful Bollywood movie ever. And it is about university education in India!
The movie tackles important issues such as
The movie tackles important issues such as
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I'd say Western education isn't much more evolved.
ReplyDeleteYou did watch the movie? Still I would like to say that so far, in Indian movies, I haven't seen anything close to "Goodwill Hunting", "A Beautiful Mind", or "October Sky"!
ReplyDeleteBut the movie contains lots of fun, I feel too.