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Towards a Philosophy of Critical Mathematics Education (Hardcover, 1994 ed.)
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Towards a Philosophy of Critical Mathematics Education (Hardcover, 1994 ed.)
Series: Mathematics Education Library, 15
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In Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell gives a description of
different forms of suppression. We learn about the telescreens
placed everywhere, through which it is possible for Big-Brother to
watch the inhabitants of Oceania. However, it is not only important
to control the activities of the inhabitants, it is important as
well to control their thoughts, and the Thought Police are on
guard. This is a very direct form of monitoring and control, but
Orwell also outlines a more imperceptible and calculated line of
thought control. In the Appendix to Nineteen Eighty-Four Orwell
explains some struc tures of 'Newspeak', which is going to become
the official language of Oceania. Newspeak is being developed by
the Ministry of Truth, and this language has to substitute
'Oldspeak' (similar to standard English). Newspeak should fit with
the official politics of Oceania ruled by the Ingsoc party: "The
purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression
for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of
Ingsoc, but to make all other modes of thought impos sible. It was
intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and
Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought - that is, a thought
diverging from the principles of Ingsoc - should be literally
unthink able, at least as far as thought is dependent on words."
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