In the novel Manifest Destiny by Barry B. Longyear education is conveyed as a powerful weapon for either side in the fight for freedom. In the human races attempt to wipe out the Bendan population and expand their “god given right” they use the power of education to implement their ideas and beliefs into the bendadn’s heads. Humans used the historically inaccurate telling of their history to brainwash Armath and his race. Paradoxically Fellmans’s teachings of the “ideal” of “Manifest Destiny” and the “True destiny of humans, and other intelligent races” enlightened the benda people with the realization they are not lower life forms or “savage” and to fight back against the slow destruction of their race. Moreover, After realizing that the normal
