Quotation #2

"At the end of the room a loud speaker projected from the wall. The Director walked up to it and pressed a switch.
"… all wear green," said a soft but very distinct voice, beginning in the middle of a sentence, "and Delta Children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides they wear black, which is such a beastly colour. I'm so glad I'm a Beta."
There was a pause; then the voice began again.
"Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm really awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able …"
The Director pushed back the switch. The voice was silent. Only its thin ghost continued to mutter from beneath the eighty pillows.
"They'll have that repeated forty or fifty times more before they wake; then again on Thursday, and again on Saturday. A hundred and twenty times three times a week for thirty months. After which they go on to a more advanced lesson.""

An explanation of the mind-changing techniques used in BNW, Chapter 2

This is the quote on how the children are taught subconsciously to like their caste and the laws of society.
The text-to-world connection I made was about how impressionable young children are. In the late 19th century, a psychologist professor at Harvard decided to help his baby learn in a different way, by putting up blocks of sentences and books in different languages. The effect was phenomenal- the child graduated from high school at 10, took 2 years off to learn another 6 languages, then graduated from Harvard at 15. He travelled, the taught mathematics. The point being, the child's brain automatically had a head start, and showed more interest in books that goo-goo's, because that's what it was raised with. The text-to-text connection was again, from 1984, where de-humanization of the majority of the human race is a major factor. The text-to-self connection I made was actually fairly common, being brought up with goo-goos and soft toys. If you do things like that, it makes the parents feel more secure, although the child may not reach absolute potential. The same theory applies to the novel, you may have the State feel secure, because everyone is content, but people do not reach their fullest potential by limiting them.