Indoctrination.
You do it. They do it. He does it. She does it.
What is it exactly?
The dictionary definition is: “the process of teaching a person or group to accept a set of beliefs uncritically.”
Uncritically. Without criticism.
If you’re taught to criticise something without knowing first-hand what you’re criticizing, then, by definition, you’re indoctrinating.
This image of Ron Desantis behind a podium that reads “freedom from indoctrination” is by definition negating its message.
How does one go about learning critical thinking skills? Is it to demote/hide/shun/evade certain topics on the basis of, say, discomfort or comfort levels?
I was indoctrinated. My elementary to high school education was designed to only include religious teachings and to determine that any oppositional source of information should be considered off limits. We were limited in the books we were encouraged to read. Falling lock step with parents, teachers and Sunday school teachers was the way to a fulfilling life.
That, dear readers, is indoctrination.
When I got into the real world, I was educationally crippled. I was not equipped to have adult conversations, because I was taught that everything in the Bible is literally true and anyone or anything that says otherwise, should be avoided or cast away as demonic.
I was lucky. I got away from much of the indoctrination, because I let myself be free with what I read and watched. Once you read what was determined as evil, it’s like the fruit in the garden, once eaten, your eyes cannot be closed again.
The first “woke” people in the Christian history were awakened from ignorance, they became like God. But it’s perverse people who want to deny anyone of the riches of education.
By its very definition, the governor of Florida is imposing its citizens and its children to indoctrination by way of indoctrination.
Making books off limits to students is what my upbringing was like. It was a religious test. And now we have a world of antagonism toward learning in the state of Florida. Not just at a parochial school in North Carolina.
Everything that makes little weenie Ron DeSantis feel bad about his white privilege is now off limits to everyone who he deems more important than other people.
It’s a sad state. A sad sad state.
Kids should learn to read. Read trash. Read non trash. If it’s off limits, we should put those books in kids’ hands.
So they can avoid indoctrination.
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