Name: Aqsa Zafar, Qirrat Khan

Section: C56
Submitted to: Aasma Nijabat
Title: Assignment no 2
Topic:
Nepolean’s ideas about Education

Q: What are nepolean’s ideas about Education? Why do you think he

believes this?
Ans: Napolean believes that an emphasis on the young should be the focus of
education. This is first exemplified, when he takes nine young puppies from their
mother's care in order to train them. They later come back as Napoleon's enforcers
and play a large role in Napoleon's grab for power against Snowball.
Napoleon used education for his own purposes, as a way to cement his power.
From the beginning, he and the other pigs used learning to read and write to their
advantage. Although the other animals did learn to read some, the pigs made sure
that the education was reserved mostly for them. As the brain trust of the farm,
they could ensure that the other animals remained ignorant. This would come in
handy so that they could do things like change the commandments and tell the
animals that they remembered things wrong.
The pigs study in secret, and then reveal that they know how to read and write.
They also tell the animals that because of this secret education they are able to
convey what Old Major knows best. In this way, they are able to control the
animals and prevent the farm from belonging to everyone.
The only education that really matters to Napoleon is making sure that the sheep
are brainwashed into being his propaganda, speaking so loudly that they drown out
any doubters. He also teaches the puppies to be his security force. His other goal
is to teach the animals that he is always right, and he is in charge, and not to mess
with him. Soon, the animals are all under his control and there is little difference
between the farm under the pigs’ rule and the farm under the men.