Education In Brave New World Essay

Everything in the American Education System is Broken a source states. They go on to say “ all Americans need to do is work together to fix the broken pieces. All it takes is the courage to rip it all apart”. Ripping it all apart is simply what Huxley did in the novel Brave New World. He easily did this with the creation of three worlds: our current one, the World State, and the Savage Reservation. By satirizing a World State that fails in its education, Huxley expresses that our modern education system has flaws of its own that need to work with the positives for us to prosper.
Huxley mocks the modern education teaching strategies through the way that citizens of the Brave New World have education pumped through them. At the beginning of the novel, Huxley is explaining this foreign world to us. When the D.H.C. and his students went up to the fifth floor to see the Infant Nurseries: Neo- Pavlovian Conditioning Rooms we are faced with children and nurses. The nurse went on to spread out books and flowers. When the babies would crawl towards them the nurse would sound loud noises and electrical shock. This was to teach the children to not like nature or books
Mond just finished reading a paper which was titled ‘ A New Theory of Biology’. While he was reflecting he expressed, “ ‘the purpose of life was not the maintenance of well-being, but some intensification and refining of consciousness, some enlargement of knowledge’ ” (Huxley 177). As Mond is expressing the purpose of life is to enlarge the amount of knowledge he is expressing his belief that knowledge is one of the most important things in life. In this case, Mond’s statement is a raw version of his credence. Along with Mond, Huxley also expresses the importance of education through the Savage. While arguing with the controller about civilizations and what is correct and important the Savage