I know this is a tad bit late, but I was busy all Thursday and Friday soo I planned to just finish my blog on Saturday, but unfortunately my glass shower door decided to shatter on me as I was getting out. So I pretty much spent my day in the Emergency Room, getting glass out of my feet. You’d imagine I would do it Sunday, but I kinda sorta forgot… So here I am on a Monday night finishing a blog that was due on Friday… Sorry! Anyways go ahead and read my sucky blog entry! J
After watching the video, "Changing Education Paradigms," Sir Ken Robinson points out our education in society today. He explains that education is created and formed in the model of "the interests of industrialization," with schools "organized on factory lines.” Ken Robinson’s lecture goes over the issue that education is not really educating us or helping us learn.
In the very beginning of the video, Robinson mentions the two false generalizations that most people believe; (The belief that there are “smart” people, and rest of the people are “non-smart” people.) Later on in the video, Robinson states that this mindset makes those who are considered smart think highly of themselves, while that makes the other “dumb” individuals reduce themselves to a much lower status in a humiliating way. Being labeled in a higher status, these people begin to believe this nonsense which results in society and education restraining their highest potentials.
In Brave New World, the Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons also have this problem. For example, If a Gamma was created to be a Gamma, he would immediately reduce himself to a much lower status. Furthermore, “Gammas are stupid” and “Alpha children are frightfully clever”, which labels the Gammas as “non-smart” people and the Alphas as the “smart” people.
That's it... Bye!!!
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