Brave New World… it’s a sign?
Today I was thinking about some Edward DeBono thinking skills… There’s logical vs lateral thinking. Something in my mind triggered, and I remembered this novel I read back in high school – “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley.
There was a part of the story that went something like this:
Some level of people can recite, “the longest river in africa is the nile…”
but when asked, “what’s the longest river in the world?”
they’d reply, “I dont’ know”
if asked, “can you recite again?”
they’d go, “the longest river in…”
if asked again, “what’s the longest river in the world?”
they’d say again, “I don’t know…”
These people have the knowledge, but they don’t know how to apply it. That’s in the fictional world of Brave New World. It’s actually the same with many things nowadays. Say, students in many Asian countries. They have so stress studying, so they memorize everything, but when asked to apply, not many can do it.
I had sore eyes today, so I did some research on eyesight… incidentally, I found out that Aldous Huxley was clinically blind at age of 19, but can still see? It reminds me of Brave New World again. Maybe it’s a sign that I should re-read this book…
Some eye web sites:
http://www.eyerobics.com.au/
http://www.apple.com/about/ergonomics/vision.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bates_method
They say Aldous Huxley used this method to fix his eyesight, but I doubt the source’s credibility.
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