"...there are reasons to be skeptical (and wary) of the values-driven education that we increasingly see in America’s public schools today, where many students are being taught a controversial social justice curriculum from a young age.
An illustration of such a curriculum can be found in Aldous Huxley’s brilliant novel Brave New World.
Early in the novel, we see that the Directors were able to build their wonderful world of conformity and docility through a scientific breakthrough: sleep-teaching (or hypnopaedia).
...Huxley’s point is that moral education requires no actual thinking.
Early in the novel, we see that the Directors were able to build their wonderful world of conformity and docility through a scientific breakthrough: sleep-teaching (or hypnopaedia).
...Huxley’s point is that moral education requires no actual thinking.
The recipients of hypnopaedia are not learning; they are being programmed.
What type of moral education are they receiving?
Huxley shows us..."
...There was a pause; then the voice began again.
...There was a pause; then the voice began again.
- “Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they’re so frightfully clever. I’m really awfuly glad I’m a Beta, because I don’t work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don’t want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They’re too stupid to be able …”
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