Sunday, February 2, 2014

In Animal Farm, education is really important, but is education enough to prevent power abuse?I asked this because I wish to know how education...

It sort of looks like you're asking two different things:


  • Can people (if they are educated) prevent the government from abusing its power

  • Why/how do the educated, and not the uneducated, have power

These are two different things.  Have I correctly stated your questions?


For the first one: education alone is not enough to prevent the abuse of government power.  Germans in the 1930s were not notably uneducated.  Chinese today are not poorly educated.  In both countries, governments have abused their power.  Education is important, but it is not sufficient to prevent governmental abuse.


As to the second question.  Power comes from economic success or from political success.  Education really helps get both of those things.  So the educated people are much more likely to climb the ladder and become successful.


Is either of those answers useful?  Are those the right questions?  Let me know if you want to...

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