How does Orwell show the importance of education throughout the novel Animal Farm?

depicts the importance of education by continually illustrating the various ways the more
intelligent pigs manipulate the less educated animals in order to remain on top of the social
hierarchy of the farm.

The pigs are depicted as the most intelligent animals
and are the first animals who learn to read and write. On the farm, as in life, knowledge is
power, and the pigs immediately possess the most authority on the farm because of their ability
to read and write. They write the Seven Commandments, organize the farm, and take a leadership
role in the formation of a new government. Whenandattempt to establish an egalitarian society,
Napoleon is able to manipulate the other animals into doing all the manual labor while the pigs
eat their mash with apples and milk because they are "brainworkers."

Orwell depicts the most educated, intelligent animals at the top of the social
hierarchy while the less educated, ignorant animals likeare manipulated, exploited,
and...