Have you ever heard that education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world? Not even the animals in George Orwell's book Animal Farm. The animals on Animal Farm had a freedom that no animal had felt in centuries! Even if the animals didn't care about learning, they did care about finally being free. But that freedom didn't last long; if the animals had taken the time to learn, perhaps they could have stopped the danger Napoleon had pushed them into. Time and again in this tragic story, some animals have been shown to have a high intellectual level, and others to have less knowledge. than they can even think about. as quoted in the book, "none of the other animals could get beyond the letter a. It was also found that the dumbest animals, such as sheep, chickens, and ducks, could not remember the commandments by heart." No animal other than pigs could write. Napoleon and Snowball realized this very quickly, except that Napoleon had an illness that made him desire total domination....
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