Educacion

This video that we watched was actually quite interesting, once you get past the squeaky noises at the beginning. The way it was presented obviously made the speech more interesting and easy to follow, which was good because it portrayed the otherwise slightly boring stream of words in a more upbeat visual aspect, which actually helped his message in the long run.
In regards to the relation of Sir Ken Robinson’s observations and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, there are many similarities, but at the same time, they are at different ends of the spectrum for whatever it is. For example, Sir Robinson comments on the ‘epidemic,’ it seems, of ADHD, in which children across America are just fed pills such as Ritalin or Adderall, in order to strengthen their focus in school and help them pay attention better. In comparison, this relates to the soma in Brave New World, because it is, in essence, a drug that helps the people to all think alike and focus on the same thing: losing themselves in pleasure and happiness.
Another similarity between the two is when Sir Ken Robinson describes the ‘date of manufacture,‘ which is what kids are grouped and labeled as. This is similar in Brave New World, as a “bokanovskified egg will bud, will proliferate, will divide…[producing] from eight to ninety-six… embryos.” These embryos grow up into people, technically as huge sets of twins, worked like machines all living near the same lives. Their ‘date of manufacture, as Sir Robinson would describe, would be when they were concocted like a Bokonovsky science experiment, emerging out of the tubes they will have spent eight months ‘growing’ in.