The Importance Of Education In Ayn Rand's Anthem

Samuel Krejci“It was not that the learning was too hard for us. It was that the learning was too easy. This is a great sin, to be born with a head which is too quick” (Rand 21). Anthem, a story of dystopian literature, is about a man named Equality 7-2521. He is faced with many social difficulties, like being stronger, taller, and much smarter than all of his “brothers” in their collectivist society. But his hardest challenge throughout the story is that his entire society doesn’t want him to learn at the speed and potential that he can and should be learning at, they want to hold him back so that he doesn’t realize the wrongs and become a “threat to the society.”
After the new generation of children are bred and taken from their parents, they begin their government regulated education, but they are never taught about the outside world or what happened before the society began, which leads to widespread ignorance and brainwashing. This controlled learning environment that is forced upon the future generations by the government is the largest aspect that this community uses. The education system that was chosen was designed to lead to widespread ignorance
The regulation of common education will, with few exceptions, lead to widespread brainwashing for the rest of those people’s lives. The people do not know very much about past accomplishments that the people before the new collectivist society knows about, leading to an archaic lifestyle. This all leads to an ignorance that makes it even easier to brainwash a person of this society, because they do not know any better at all. Though there is only one big question about the future of this society as a whole, if no one knows anything about combat, how would they be able to defend themselves from outside