Exactly. When a 9th grader can't point out Australia on a world map but knows how to put a condom on a banana, that's a pretty good indication that things have swung way too far left.
If you're using "indoctrination" in the common negative sense (e.g. brainwashing), then I disagree. Teaching kids critical thought (as opposed to critical theory in all its insidious glory) is providing tools to resist or escape indoctrination. Let's not get so cynical that we drag ourselves down to the current level!
Just because education has an influence doesn't mean it's all equally indoctrination. The effects can be fundamentally different.
here's the thing; Education is for indoctrination. Either we do it or they do it. There is no perfectly neutral history.
Yes, ultimately that's what the hemlock is for - but there is a scale of acceptability and it's currently way out of whack methinks.
Exactly. When a 9th grader can't point out Australia on a world map but knows how to put a condom on a banana, that's a pretty good indication that things have swung way too far left.
If you're using "indoctrination" in the common negative sense (e.g. brainwashing), then I disagree. Teaching kids critical thought (as opposed to critical theory in all its insidious glory) is providing tools to resist or escape indoctrination. Let's not get so cynical that we drag ourselves down to the current level!
Just because education has an influence doesn't mean it's all equally indoctrination. The effects can be fundamentally different.