Brave New World, Essay Starter Ideas

I decided to start out my idea for the Brave New world essay by connecting the society in Brave New World to our education. I've been able to make many connections between the two. Watching Sir Ken Robinson expanded my thoughts on this topic. School is like an assembly line and is run a lot like society is run in Brave New World. In the school system things are very redundant and things are run the way they are supposed to be run and if they aren't then there will be consequences to pay. In the book, the world has developed into a factory. Children are created through test tubes and conditioned to fit their jobs and social class. They are brought up in batches until they are ready for work, just like in our world. So that is basically what I'll be discussing but I plan on using some pieces of literature including Brave New World Revisited by Christopher Hitchens, and the animation video on education by Sir Ken Robinson because these are what best explains my main idea. They help me incorporate my idea of today's education being like the society as a whole in Brave New World. I might even take my earlier thought about soma and ADHD medicine and incorporate it into my essay. Kids with ADHD have a ton of prospective. I would say that it is even a benefit to have ADHD. Bottom line is that the school system is becoming more robotic as time goes on. There is less divergent thinking as you grow up in the education system. It does not help when doctors induce students with their ADHD medicine to conform them and make them converged thinkers like the rest of everyone in the school system. This is what soma does to free thinkers in Brave New World.

Sometimes I'll start a sentence and I don't know where it's going. I just hope to find it somewhere along the way. Like an improv conversation. An improversation. -Michael Scott

David: What are you doing right?

Michael: Right What

David: Uttica, Albany, all the other branches are struggling, but your branch is reporting strong numbers. Look, you're not our most traditional guy but clearly something you are doing is right and I need to get some sense of what that is.

Michael: David, here it is. My philisophy is basically this. And this is something that I live by. And I always have and I always will. Don't ever, for any reason, do anything to anyone...for any reason ever no matter what. No matter where or who or who you were with or where you are going or...where you've been. Ever. For any reason whatsoever.