Education and BNW

     Well that video is pretty cool I must say:) But anyways there are definitely parallels between the video and Brave New World. Education today is focused on a single from of education: preaching "facts" and then handing out a test. There is no specialization for individuals who not learn in this way. If you are not a very good test taker then you are left behind. Education at the high school level pushes to prepare students for standardized testing which has been placed as the ultimate goal. Standardized testing WILL NOT help anyone in the real world once we are into college and beyond. Students are being spoon fed information and they are not taught to stand on their own and form personal beliefs. You do what the teacher says to get the grades, you repeat what the teacher says on the test to get the grades, you write what the teacher believes to pass the class. As people have gained the access to knowledge outside of school, students are now able to break the biases placed on them by their teachers.  Some schools however realize that they cannot allow this and teachers try to teach without bias, however this is hard to achieve.
     The first similarity is Soma vs. Ritalin. ADHD may or may not be a huge problem. The huge problem is that parents and doctors are perfectly fine with pumping children with drugs because they do not have a proper outlet for their energy. Soma is used in Brave New World to control people in a similar way. It prevents individuals from exploring things that are detrimental to society. If people on constantly on drugs and seeking their desire then the government is able to make them "focus" on what the government feels is important. The next commonplace is of course the "factory model" of education. In Brave New World children are manufacture in factories and educated according by age within the factory. In society as we know it, Robinson states that our education is conducted a similar way. We are told when to leave classes by bells, classes are divided by subject, and we are educated by age not by ability.The focus of education in Brave New World is "Moral education, which ought never, in any circumstances, to be rational". The main difference between Brave New World and the "real" world is the fact that today students have the power to decide, many of them give up that power, but none the less we have the power.