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A 5 page essay that discusses the ultimate purpose of education and the benefits of living in a society where knowledge is freely available. The writer draws heavily upon Dai Sijie's novel Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress in making points on this topic. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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go about their daily lives immersed in a world where immense data is literally at their fingertips through the use of computers and the Internet and only a stones throw
away in the wealth of knowledge readily available through public libraries. It is a rich, varied environment, yet to learn from it, and, more specifically, to garner wisdom from knowledge,
an individual must first cultivate the courage to question preconceived ideas and assumptions and take advantage of this immense freedom to know. To know what, one might ask. The answer
lies with the individual and the often secret ambitions of the inner-most soul. In his novel Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Chinese author Dai Sijie draws on the
historical events of the Chinas culture revolution, engineered and dictated by "the Great Helmsman of Chinas Revolution, Chairman Mao" (Sijie 6). Maos cultural campaign closed the universities and thousands of
young people, the sons and daughters of presume anti-revolutionary intellectuals, were sent to the countryside to be "re-educated" as poor peasants (Sijie 6). Sijies novel is the account of two
of these young people, Luo and the unnamed narrator of the tale. Soon after arriving in their designated village, the headman and some other villagers interrogate the boys concerning
a violin that is found among their belongings. The headman condemns it as "a bourgeois toy" and commands that it be burnt (Sijie 4). Luo interrupts this action by
explaining that the violin is a musical instrument and that his friend would now play them a Mozart sonata. The narrator comments, "I was dumbfounded. Had he gone mad! All
music by Mozart or indeed any other Western composer had been banned years ago" (Sijie 5). When the headman demands to know the name of this song, Luo improvises
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