The entrance to the education facility.
- “If the mind will not yield, then you must expose the mind to every version of itself. Either the mind will yield, or be reduced to a blank.”
- ― Elizabeth[src]
Where We Learn is an educational facility on the third floor of the Comstock House Re-Education Center in Columbia.
History[]
The "Where We Learn" facility was used by the doctors of Comstock House to teach the patients their ideals on freeing mankind from sin. While the patients were taught, they were observed and filmed by the scientists from a one-way mirror, who used the knowledge they learned from the patients' behavior to further study and data collection.
In an alternate timeline, Comstock House was left under the rule of Elizabeth, after becoming Zachary Comstock's heir. The state of the facility worsened over the years, with Elizabeth losing her grip on the patients and the whole complex. The "Where We Learn" facility was no exception, which was turned into a simple screening room intended for brainwashing, which also suffered the test of time.
BioShock Infinite[]
- Main article: BioShock Infinite
Determined to save Elizabeth from Comstock after she was kidnapped by the Songbird, Booker DeWitt unknowingly enters a Tear to a different timeline, to December 31st, 1983, while approaching Comstock House. DeWitt has to find the Warden's Office on the fourth floor, in order to get to the captured Elizabeth and thus has to pass through the "Where We Learn" facility. Managing to pass through the broken down snow-covered facility with the various patients and guards, as well as the Boys of Silence, he reaches the third floor and the Security Center where the Warden's Office is found. The Security Center is closed off, so Booker takes another route to the Where We Learn facility, hoping that there might be an alternate way in.
Where We Learn[]
The classroom
Booker can enter one of the two doors into the classroom. How much of the interior design has changed during the years of its use is unknown, but the facility has been left in a dire strait. "Canon in D Major" by Johann Pachelbel is played under a public address announcement by Elizabeth. The lectern has been left as it is, with a Medical Kit and a Hand Cannon on it. Behind the lectern are two blackboards with patients' medical dosage and a silver screen with a projection on it. The projection comes from a projector on top of the remaining student desks, stacked upon each other. The projection shows a film of various images intended for brainwashing the patients. The video shows shorts of Columbia and its citizens with subliminal text messages appearing in between. An image of the prophet's gaze will appear in between these shots of film. For the brainwashing to have further effect, needlepoint quotes have been hung on the walls, promoting the ideals and to the right of the projector are several drawers with Founding Fathers and Comstock masks on them. To the right are bookshelves and a gramophone, but most noteworthy: the one-way mirror. Someone has thrown a student desk through the mirror, giving an easy access point via a toppled shelf to the observation area.
The observation area.
The observation area is fairly small and contains film cameras and chairs pointed at the now broken mirror, two sofas with additional Founders masks, a table with a tea set and phone, some cabinets, another medical dosage blackboard, and a larger blackboard with physic calculations. Directional signs for the Warden's Office indicates that it is straight ahead. Further on is a small storage hall with the Kinetoscope Battleship Falls by William R. Foreman and the entryway to the Security Center.
New Discoveries[]
Kinetoscope[]
Video[]
Bioshock Infinite - Subliminal Movie Reel
The brainwashing film.
Gallery[]
In-Game Images[]
Chalkboards[]
Needlepoint Samplers[]
Behind the Scenes[]
The messages seen briefly in the film.
- Various images flash briefly during the brainwashing film: shots of the citizens of Columbia, Elizabeth's face, and the illustration of Comstock. The equation seen briefly (Δχ Δρ ≥ ħ/2) is that of the uncertainty principle. Other messages flashed throughout the film include: Ark, Lamb, Wave Particle, Sodom, Prophet, Elizabeth, Seed, DeWitt, Anna.
- Two additional needlepoint samplers exist in the game files, which were not used in the final version of the game:
| Locations and Businesses in Comstock House | ||
|---|---|---|
 | Main Locations | Where We Lie · Where We Weep · Where We Cleanse · Where We Sleep · Where We Work · Where We Learn · Security Center · Warden's Office · Operating Theater |