Huxley, Plato Comparison on Education Essay

In Platos Republic, Plato believed the verbalise was responsible for the preparation of its citizens for the purpose of their separate enlightenment. Huxley, in his work brassy New dry land takes this part of Platos Utopian society and perverts it in order to indoctrinate the citizens of his invoke. I will attempt to argue that Huxley uses education by the state to indoctrinate its citizens and ultimately undermine Platos theory on education by the state for individual enlightenment. The flairs in which Huxley uses education to indoctrinate the individual are diverse.Music or instead hypnopaedic pass was used to indoctrinate the citizens while they slept (Kindle, Huxley, loc 385). Eugenics but more precisely the Bokanovsky Process is used on side with Podsnaps Technique to create the individual. These solvees combined allowed the state to alter embryos and organize people into any(prenominal) the state desired (Kindle, Huxley, loc 84). The use of music to educate the you th was something Plato originally stated in his utopian society. He stresses that when people are young they are more susceptible to influence (Kindle, Plato, loc 8578).Huxleys state does this as well and plays hypnopaedic sound (music) while the young are sleeping over and over once again to indoctrinate them, and slowly alter their thoughts or make them remember certain things. The uses of hypnopaedic sound vary by t mavens and tongue but are ultimately used to create social stability which is another musical mode of saying control of the populace. Hypnopaedic sound is used to make the citizens neer try to fix anything or use old things, but buy new integritys instead.One of the sounds for this type of indoctrination is closing curtain is better than mending, ending is better than mending (Kindle, Huxley, loc 1328). This process of convincing people they need to buy things is a mode of gaining felicity and satisfaction as well as benefitting the state by creating a consumer society. The saying or sound every one belongs to every one else is in addition used to create a society where everyone has perk up with each other and there are no relationships. The sex is not for procreation but for pastime perceive as the state creates the individual and regulates childbirth.Plato alike favored this sharing in his Utopia but unless for his guardian class of citizens. Huxley applied this to his whole society but the sharing is only in-between classes never outside of classes. Another sound to further indoctrinate is Every one works for every one else. We cant do without any one. Even epsilons are useful. We couldnt do without Epsilons. Every one works for every one else. We cant do without any one(Kindle, Huxley loc 951). This is a type of farce, seeing as not all the citizens of Huxleys human race perform the same tasks or duties.Hypnopaedic sound is also used to convince people to take build (Kindle, Huxley loc 2699). A gramme in time saves lodge and One cubic centimeter cures ten gloomy sentiments are some of the hypnopaedic sounds used (Kindle, Huxley loc 1140). The drug soma was developed when the government of Huxleys society took over the pharmaceutical industry. Soma has no side effectuate except providing an escape for people away from their problems, anxieties or feelings (Kindle, Huxley, loc 1328).This is really another bureau of control and also perversion by Huxley, which is compounded by hypnopaedic sound. The sound everybodys happy now is used to make people believe they are happy and if you believe you are happy, you are happy (Kindle, Huxley, loc 968). This form of contrary education by Huxley is how the state indoctrinates the individual but this is just a part of it. Huxleys world state employs the method of the Bokanovskys Process to create or rather grow its citizens some thousands at a time (Kindle, Huxley, loc 84).This process combined with the Podsnaps Technique allows the state to mold and create the in dividual into whatever the state dictates by using eugenics. Plato favored a process of eugenics also as a means to breed out imperfection. Huxley took this process to creation itself instead of modification through generations (Kindle, Plato, 1252). This is Huxleys way of specialization, which Plato also talks about in his utopian educational system as a necessary way for the state to function (Kindle, Plato loc 4953).Huxley perverts this and takes it a step further and does not give the individual a choice in what their life may be. Citizens are grown in tubes and altered by means of chemicals, additives, and even gravitational forces (Kindle, Huxley, loc 170). By these alterations people cannot think or do outside of what their task or assigned job is by the states indoctrination. The citizen can only do what it is made to do by this process and cannot question its purpose.In Huxleys world state everyone regardless of their class is completely core being what they are and nothi ng else. This is again because they cannot think outside of what they have been made and told to be by hypnopaedic sound and state modification. (Kindle, Huxley, loc 959). Huxleys education by means of hypnopaedic sound and eugenics indoctrinates the citizens of his world state. This indoctrination keeps the people from inquiring authority and the status quo and ultimately makes them slaves to Huxleys world state.Huxley does a fine job in put up New World of showing what can be possible after a great catastrophe occurs and the people need someone to save them. This tragedy would then lead to drastic changes in the way people live and ultimately lead to a whole brave new world. Huxleys Brave New World does not seem possible in the actual world. Brave New World is more of a cautionary tale of what if and the totalitarian state. The real world is to globalized now and states are dependent upon one another but hey what if?