Get the "factory" out of our schools.

          

           

         Well, Brave New World is over, and with it comes another essay. Yayyyy. I actually really enjoyed this book, and it brings to light a very interesting point that I happen to be very passionate about. The books theme, in my opinion, pushes the argument that there is no such thing as a perfect world or social structure by showing the numerous imperfections that lie in an assembly line oriented society. I think this theme can easily be applied to today’s educational system. In my essay I would like to discuss how although we cannot teach students without structure, schooling them through giant industrialized factories is not only stunting their creative thinking, but it is depriving them of any preparation for a world outside of standardized testing. Neil Postman has many interesting views on the growth of technology that I plan on exploring and analyzing in my essay.

The internet has supplied students with endless information that can be accessed with a click of a button, and because of this, employers are shying farther and farther away from people with lofty educations and moving towards creative thinkers who will build up their companies with new ideas.   As Sir Ken Robinson explains in his video, schools continue to group students by age, completely ignoring the fact that not everyone at one age learns or thinks the same. They stuff them with individual standardized testing not realizing that by alienating children they are inhibiting their ability to learn and grow as much as they could if they were in a group.  It is my opinion that if schools wish to be successful in educating students and preparing them for the real world, they need to realize that due to the advances in technology, stuffing students with endless amounts of information is both unnecessary and disabling. We need to stop standardizing and uniforming students and start encouraging them into new and innovated ways of thinking.