Thursday, October 28, 2010

First of all, the video was very interesting and creative. I thought it was awesome how Sir Ken Robinson drew out the pictures to describing his sayings. The pictures actually help me understand the topic of the video better because I am a visual person. There were some similarities between Sir Ken Robinson’s video, RSA Animate-Changing Education Paradigms, and Brave New World. For example, in the video, Robinson drew at student being medicated and sitting in his desk; while the teacher said, “Take your pills and focus!” (4:52). The student is being drug in order for him to concentrate on education, instead of being distracted by others things such as iPod, T.V. advertising, and computers. The pill helps control and brainwash the students into focusing on the “boring things”.  Similar to this, in Brave New World, the people gather together and take a drug called soma (81). This drug help take the people into a higher dimension mentally, forgetting the physical world. They want to achieve happiness and worship the Fordship. Soma seems like a technique used to help control the people. Furthermore, in the video, Robinson drew each department of the school (6:54). Students go to school and have different kind of classes that they take. Each class taught a different subject; therefore, as students attend, they are being taught and learning varies of things. Just like this, in the novel, from developing in a tube to little children, they are condition through the process. They are taught to hate the cold and love the heat. They are brainwashed that family and relationships are bad things. In addition, Robinson states that students are being produces as batches through age. In the novel, Bokanovsky‘s Process was the production of thousands of twins. They graduate in groups and work on the same thing as groups. 

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