Equality 7-2521 was brought into a society that knows barely anything and where knowledge is a sin. The council believes that knowledge starts curiosity and that curiosity leads to individuality. The society is built around doing everything together. The council gives intelligent people unnecessary and unimportant positions. “Equality 7-2521...Street Sweeper” (25-26). They turned down Equality’s invention just because he worked by himself. They needed someone like Equality to break the rules and step outside the social standard to finally invent something and have intelligence. To develop technological progress, they need knowledge, science, and individuality; they are downgrading in technology, making everything anyone has ever worked for
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They only went to school for ten years. “...sent to the Home of the Students, where there are ten wards, for our ten years of learning” (20). Ten years of learning basic techniques of how to do certain things is not enough to have any sort of intelligence. “It was that the learning was too easy” (21). There needs to be more advanced learning for a longer period of time. The council assigns people to careers and make the people do that for the rest of their life. The council knew Equality had something special in him, so they gave him a career that wouldn’t use any knowledge and wouldn’t stir up any curiosity: A Street Sweeper. The council is so obsessed with the idea that everyone has to be the same that they give useless jobs to the people they think are a threat to their …show more content…
They need to have knowledge about science or at least know the basic meaning to even know what science is. This society are seeing science happen every single day without even knowing it is science. Equality stepped out of the box and saw what it really was and was put down, having him not worked with anybody. Technology and science will not have any positive progress without individuality and curiosity. Science revolves around curiosity. It is not fair to anyone in the society that they are keeping such a major key to everything away from them. Science relates to everything. One cannot run a working society without it. Equality broke the rules to pursue what he felt was right, if the rules didn’t stop him they won’t stop anybody
They only went to school for ten years. “...sent to the Home of the Students, where there are ten wards, for our ten years of learning” (20). Ten years of learning basic techniques of how to do certain things is not enough to have any sort of intelligence. “It was that the learning was too easy” (21). There needs to be more advanced learning for a longer period of time. The council assigns people to careers and make the people do that for the rest of their life. The council knew Equality had something special in him, so they gave him a career that wouldn’t use any knowledge and wouldn’t stir up any curiosity: A Street Sweeper. The council is so obsessed with the idea that everyone has to be the same that they give useless jobs to the people they think are a threat to their …show more content…
They need to have knowledge about science or at least know the basic meaning to even know what science is. This society are seeing science happen every single day without even knowing it is science. Equality stepped out of the box and saw what it really was and was put down, having him not worked with anybody. Technology and science will not have any positive progress without individuality and curiosity. Science revolves around curiosity. It is not fair to anyone in the society that they are keeping such a major key to everything away from them. Science relates to everything. One cannot run a working society without it. Equality broke the rules to pursue what he felt was right, if the rules didn’t stop him they won’t stop anybody