Education In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

In the novel, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, people of the World State are not very well educated, since they are not taught with truly complex strategies. Judging from the book, hands-on learning has an effective way of teaching people different types of things. It is important because of visualization and touch, faster learning environment and becoming more intact with your decision making. When it comes to education it is important for people to read, but it is also remarkably important to teach those people with something that they can visualize and touch. Back on the reservation, there was a man named Mitsima who taught John how to make clay pots and bows and arrows. “To fashion, to give form, to feel his fingers gaining in skill and power--this gave him an extraordinary pleasure” (125). Huxley …show more content…
Consequently, students don’t get to discover different types of ways they can learn the subject more effectively. In the World State, people are only allowed to read two books, The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo and another book that has the instructions on how they are supposed to do their job. When John was walking past the School Library on the way to the Biochemical Laboratories with Dr. Gaffney, John asks if people in the World State read Shakespeare. Dr. Gaffney answers that their library, “‘Contains only books of reference. If our young people need distraction, they can get it at the feelies. We don’t encourage them to indulge in any solitary amusements’” (150). Dr. Gaffney and everybody else that has created this world practically believes that reading can lead to questioning everything, which it is something that they don’t want happening. The effect that reading has is sort of like mind control in the sense that you’re just reading everything off of a cardboard filled with paper when you can be exploring different ways of