I would love to know why that video was so intriguing, haha. That guy had a very good presentation and I felt he had very good points people don't always think of.
I like that the speaker was able to draw out the fact that education was created for a different time. Like it is said in the video, how can you say that just because you are the same age you are at the same level of education? While the school system has reasons for the way it is set up, it does not work for today's world. You cannot classify students under the same level of education just because they are the same age. Also, his reference to ADHD was very interesting as well. ADHD is looked at as an 'epidemic', even though we seem to overexaggerate. He brings up an interesting point in saying that we are essentially "drugging" children with ADHD, and making them almost robots in school.
I definitely find many parallels with Brave New World and this video. Like I just mentioned, children that are diagnosed with ADHD are drugged and treated as though they just need medicine to mute their disorder. I feel that Brave New World is in a way the same. They genetically engineered the people to make them content with how they are, except their creativity is destroyed within the process. In Brave New World, they say "And that, put in the director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue-liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny." Ch. 1. I believe the children have no control over how they are controlled in a school environment, which in ways is similar. People in Brave New World have no control over the people they have become, since they are engineered to like whatever environment they are placed in.
Overall I definitely liked what this speaker had to say and enjoyed connecting the text we are reading to what he had to say.
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