The Education Games Endure
Writing about his students exploring George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, Chris Gilbert explains:
This idea is relevant because corporate education reformers deliberately mask history. In fact, their reforms require a forced forgetting, as the public will only embrace irrational notions if opposing ideas are concealed. Orwell’s words (below in quotes) are used here, as they were in my classroom, to expose misguided narratives and the history they obscure.Although we currently live in a world informed by George Orwell’s dystopian unmasking-as-novel, we seem unable to acknowledge that the Ministry of Peace is actually waging war. [1] In our current education reform
“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
