The Industrial Revolution is outdated by about 200 years

The standards which students are held to today are hurting more than helping. Students are taught as if information will only be shown to them once. After that one time, hopefully they wrote all of the information, students will be expected to memorize as much as possible and then they will be tested to see how much they can memorize, not how much they can do. This method of teaching assumes that information is not free and easily accessible, which all information is thanks to the internet. A multitude of resources are available, but deemed useless because use of resources outside of a person's memory, (ability to memorize), are considered cheating. Likewise, students are not sent through school, or life for that matter (but that is not relevant), by their abilities. Students go through school based on when they were "manufactured" as Sir Ken Robinson states. This relates very well to Huxley's dystopia, which you would think would clue people in that this is not a good idea. In his dystopia, portrayed in "Brave New World", people are designed to take the place of those who were created before them. Mustapha Mond acknowedges this fact when he says "Wheels must turn steadily, but can not turn untended. There must be men to tend them, men as sturdy as the wheels upon their axles, sane men, obedient men, stable in contentment." He is stating that when one man becomes unfit to turn the wheel, another will take his place. In the society people are manufactured in groups, as bundles that will all begin and cease to exist at the same time.