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Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window
by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, Chihiro Iwasaki
How do you define freedom? How do you define the educational system? Tomoe Gakuen was special, it had a different system of unconventional education. This method seems odd enough, but the founder, Sosaku Kobayashi, knew it’s always important to develop and encourage children from an early age that the idea of school is always fun and learning is indeed fun.
We learnt and went through Tomoe Gakuen based on Totto-chan perspectives and how her interactions with the headmaster, friends, and family eventually made her a much better person. It’s hopeful, it’s melancholy, but more inspiring. All children should be treated equally.
On a sadder note, the period of time when everything was told was during the war. When I thought it was fiction but turned out to be a memoir, my heart broke.
We learnt and went through Tomoe Gakuen based on Totto-chan perspectives and how her interactions with the headmaster, friends, and family eventually made her a much better person. It’s hopeful, it’s melancholy, but more inspiring. All children should be treated equally.
On a sadder note, the period of time when everything was told was during the war. When I thought it was fiction but turned out to be a memoir, my heart broke.