Theme: Education & School

1. On page 109, Titus says, "School™ is not so bad now, not like back when my grandparents were kids, when the schools were run by the government, which sounds completely like, Nazi, to have the government running the schools"

Why does Titus believe that schools in the past were not as good as School™?

2. On page 47, Titus claims that the feed supposedly helps students become "supersmart", with the encyclopedias, science, history, and everything else at their fingertips.

With all of the convenience in finding information like that, would the lessons being taught in School™ be necessary or not?

3. Continue on reading page 110, we can see how Titus explains his "utopian" school that
“When no one was going to pay for the public schools anymore and they were all like filled with guns and drugs and English teachers who were really pimps and stuff, some of the big media congloms got together and gave all this money and bought the schools so that all of them could have computers and pizza for free, to find bargains and what's the best way to get a job and how to decorate our bedroom.”

What references in the book did M.T Anderson illustrated that can obviously relate with the corrupt English teachers that Titus talks about? Is this the definite result of the educational system portrayed in Feed?

4. What can be related to the real world in reading Violet’s efforts in rebelling against the feed throughout the book? Is there any ironical values taken from it?

5. What do you think the drawbacks and benefits of School™ are? What of its values can be related to the current educational system in our real