Indoctrination and Education
The term ‘indoctrination’ is generally used to express disapproval of what someone is doing to the minds of children. The democrat uses it to condemn communist schools, the humanist to criticize programmes of religious instruction, the liberal to protest at the inculcation of racist attitudes.
If the term is to function in educational theory in a meaningful way, it cannot remain merely a term of ab...
The term ‘indoctrination’ is generally used to express disapproval of what someone is doing to the minds of children. The democrat uses it to condemn communist schools, the humanist to criticize programmes of religious instruction, the liberal to protest at the inculcation of racist attitudes.
If the term is to function in educational theory in a meaningful way, it cannot remain merely a term of ab...
