Censorship jeopardises education, as misleading information can lead to misconceptions; reducing the amount of credible information valid as educational material. The goal of the education system is to produce thinking citizens, whose rights to the freedom to read are endangered by the censorship of reading material, whether in print or on the Internet. Unlike 1984, language isn't as affected by censorship in modern society; it is only ever altered when the language threatens government ideologies and perspectives. In 1984, the Party have changed the language to ‘Newspeak’, the official language of Oceania, and designed to make the ideological premises of Ingsoc (Newspeak for English Socialism, the Party’s official political alignment) the only expressible doctrine. Newspeak is engineered to remove even the possibility of rebellious thoughts; the words by which such thoughts might be articulated have been eliminated from the language. Newspeak contains no negative terms. For example, the only way to express …show more content…
Reading challenging materials teaches students critical thinking skills they need to flourish as human beings. Without reading a wide variety of materials representing a range of beliefs and ideas, they will lose out on the opportunity to judge ideas that may oppose what they believe or have been taught to believe. Students will find these kinds of evaluative skills useful as adults in a democratic society where they will have to deal with controversial ideas in the media, at work, in the government and internationally. The citizens of Oceania are subject to this effect, as all pieces of anti-government text, counter religious, and extremist views are all removed to ensure no opposition to the Party. Thus, so few if any of the citizens of Oceania express resentment to the Party; everything the party does is justified and thus no resentment can manifest in the hearts of the