Brave New World?

After reading Brave New World, there were different topics that I could discuss about. However, I am going to focus on how the novel itself applies to our world. I want to explain the parallels between our world and Brave New World through evidences from Frederick Winslow Taylor’s The Principles of SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT 1910 and Sir Ken Robinson's YouTube video, RSA Animate-Changing Education Paradigms.

Frederick Winslow Taylor’s The Principles of SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT 1910 discusses of how to improve the industrial efficiency through four of his principles: 1. They develop a science for each element of a man’s work, which replaces the old rule- of-thumb method. 2. They scientifically select and then train, teach, and develop the workman, whereas in the past he chose his own work and trained himself as best he could. This is a method which is used by the people in the novel. They created and trained people to a certain position for a certain job in society. In our own world, we are heading toward that kind if method. People are train to do certain things. For example, students are forced to become educated or else they will suffer in the future. Education is the one of the key to be successful like others. 3. They heartily cooperate with the men so as to insure all of the work being done in accordance with the principles of the science which has been developed. The people in the novel were allowed to do whatever they want, which allow them happily to do their part in society, to keep the wheel moving.  Like in reality, if the managers listen to their employees, then the employees ae willing to work better and efficiently. 4. There is an almost equal division of the work and the responsibility between the management and the workmen. The management takes over all work for which they are better fitted than the workmen, while in the past almost all of the work and the greater part of the responsibility were thrown upon the men.

Like how I explained in my blog about Ken Robinson's YouTube video, RSA Animate-Changing Education Paradigms, there are many things that are parallel between our world and Brave New World. For example, the way how the children “conditioned”, we, as students, are being train and function a certain way. Also the way how there are children are created and replacing the old ones in the novel. Students are graduating and going out into the world replacing the elders and “turning the wheel”.