The Historian Boys

Apart from ‘Freedom Writers’, we have also watched ‘The Historian Boys’. The first time I watch it, I did not understand much of the dialogues. It is not because the thick British accent that they use. But it is more to the content of the dialogue. I tried very hard to comprehend what all the characters were talking about. Most of the time, I got lost. My friends and I think that this movie is meant for higher level students so probably that’s why we have problem to understand the storyline. All that I know was the boys were finished studying at the college but they came back to prepare themselves for entering Oxford college, one of the prestige colleges around the world. One of the teachers, Hector who is the old teacher prepared the boys for the real world. This was reflected when one of the students asked him about what they were learning because they did not understand and he replied ‘you will understand soon’. The idea here is we as students might not see or understand what we are learning now but actually all the things that we learn now is to prepare us in the future. This is related to our life as well because sometimes we ask ourselves, what’s the use or function of learning so many things when we don’t see the relevance of learning it? However, as time goes by I believe that we will learn new things and realize the importance of education. Like Dr. Edwin said, “we as teachers can prepare students for whatever but we cannot guarantee what our students are going to be”.