Education and Brave New World

Throughout Brave New World people are "conditioned" to do and say what the government wants. They are conditioned on what to like who to be and what to do. They dont mind having to do a certain job that you or I may hate because they are told to love it.

 In education we are also taught what to do in school and how to do it, even if we are totally uninterested in the subject entirely. For example, in elementary school we are especially reduced to these old methods of teaching and half the kids in class dont have the attention span for classes they could care less about anyway. What we learn is the same thing that teachers have been teaching for years, and whatever they teach you is what you memorize and are tested on. Even if you suck at memorizing(or studying, whatever you want to call it) It seems to me that even if you learn differently than others then your out of luck if that teacher has been teaching only one wa foe a very long time. Doesnt everyone learn differently? I would say so and some people catch on as faster as others. In the video we see how education is taught today and how inefficient it is. The practices we use to teach kids are "outdated", and do not meet the standards of this new generation/era.

New technology has made it so much easier learn and teach so there is no reason why technology can advance and education cant .If we spent time fixing our ways of teaching as much as we spent time on the newest Ipod or 3D t.v. then we can definitely update how we are taught. So what happens now? Should we be forced to be educated by an inefficient method of teaching.  I disagree, if technology advances, so should education.

Brave New World

Throughout Brave New World human experience is manipulated through family, monogamy, impulse, feeling,and desire. To produce the desired outcome the D.H.C produces humans, through producing human you control how they feel about family because they technically arent born more so created, they dont have a mother so they dont have a maternal or paternal connection to anyone, just like the D.H.C doesnt view humans human they dont veiw each other as human and see each other more as "meat". There desires and impulses should be fulfilled when I say this i mean sexual desires because thats all they really want, they seem to have no other needs because they have everything provided for them through the D.H.C. Monogamy is unheard of, they have been taught that it is bad to be in a serious monogamous relationship and there experiences with lots of other people is correct and how it should always be. I think the reason the D.H.C wants to control sex so much is because it is a big part of human nature and if you can control all aspects of human nature you can therefor control humans.

the tempest preparation

In discussions of The Tempest, the traditional view is whether Shakespeares writings were addressing imperialism or not, if there was a message hidden in The Tempest concerning his veiws about conquering other lands or "white imperialism", However, there may be other ways to think about this text. For one thing, Aime Cesaire's A Tempest  explains that The tempest doesnt have to be so serious and there can be humor throughout the piece. During our discussion in class we all saw the humorous side to the story that Cesaire wrote, this made me see hoe fuuny the play could have been and i liked Cesaires version much better, Stephen Greenblatt also contends that when he states that literature is not political and should be enjoyed as literature not as a hidden imperialist opinion.

I think his opinion was more accurate even though while reading I like to read something and delve into the deeper meaning of what the author was trying to say, that expands your knowledge of literature and the text you reading which helps you become a better writer and reader, so I guess im in the middle of both opinions, but sometimes its just better to enjoy the writing for its external meaning.Therefore, taking these positions into account, we can see that Through The Tempest we see that literature can be read in a serious tone and looked at as political or, we can have some humor in these writings and just enjoy his work as if it were a painting or a musical number.