Video and BNW

The video was pretty good and I thought it was very similar to the principles of Brave New World.  Sir Ken Robinson makes the point that he believes we have a system of education that is modeled around the interests of industrialization.  In the world after Ford, that’s basically what the education system is like.  Kids are bred to do things that will help the industry and economy of the state.  Whatever is in need at the time, that’s what the kids learned to do.  He continues on to say that children are taught in batches and separated in different groups.  Furthermore, in the BNW the government separates the children into groups as well and a certain group can work harder than the other,” alpha children….work harder than we do”(26) .  Sometimes the stronger kids are put into one group so they can be supreme in society.  Sir Robinson wants us to go away from this sort of production line mentality.  We shouldn’t  separate children into groups because essentially they are all the same.  Children in our world get very bored about the things that are taught to them.  We have a new knowledge being presented to us but refuse to accept the information because we do not find them very important.  In Ford’s world a child will be given information and they will love it.  Also, they will be presented with new information also but, they will not take it in because they are trained to only know a certain thing.  They are ignorant of new information if it does not play into the skills they were given to by the government.  They do not know any better and will never learn a new trade.  If they are told to work in a factory, that’s what they’ll do forever.