"Teaching the value of free thought matters now more than ever.
Unfortunately, most American public schools take the opposite approach.
Many people have long suspected that governments sometimes attempt to indoctrinate their people to increase the government’s own power and influence. Unfortunately, ambitious governments will not stop at merely controlling what their people can do; they must control their minds.
Indoctrination happens through many channels—entertainment, speeches, and censorship––but its main instrument is the school system.
Teachers have a captive audience of malleable young minds for several years.
They may not have figured out how to make students smart and productive, but they can at least make them submissive and obedient.
...Most Americans might receive a mediocre education, but this education may be so mediocre that the intended brainwashing might not even be effective..."
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