Response to Orwell’s Quote

“…scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils down to more physics, more chemistry, more biology, etc., to the detriment of literature and history” (5).

What Orwell is conveying in this statement is that scientific teachings have to do more than just spew facts into our brains, instead they must get down to a deeper and more personal level of thought.  I agree with him on this to an extent.  It is necessary to know where different discoveries have come from and to be more connected with your intellectual side of reasoning, but whether the two should be connected is a different story.  Like church and state I think the teachings of science and scientific thinking should be separate.  You can’t be learning about the human body or use of the atom as you also are informed on how to be a more subjective thinker and person.  Therefore, education should contain two aspects, one in which you learn about the exact sciences as Orwell described in his first definition, and another dealing with how thinking more critically can improve your self-worth.  I feel that in today’s world this is what goes on because you have your science classes, such as, biology and chemistry, and then your moral reasoning and thinking classes, like philosophy and history.