Conservative speakers face extreme public outcry on campuses if they try to share their views. If liberals have all the answers, is there really any need for debate? Any political theory course will teach you debate is vital to discovering the truth. Philosophers like John Stuart Mill encourage us to challenge our beliefs constantly with opposing arguments in order to refine our beliefs and ensure they ring valid and true.
Today, we discuss our views only with those who reinforce them. Rallies and strikes have taken the place of discussion and compromise. However, they often reveal their left-leaning biases throughout their courses. In practice, the effort often falls short. However, once in a while, it would be nice to see the other side represented.
In fact, they may not even be aware that the way they teach their content leaves little room for debate. From these rights, we gain a wealth of knowledge. Historically, slaves were not permitted to learn to read as a tactic to reduce their power and potential. Their suppressors feared that any gained knowledge or skills would incite them to rebel.
This entails everyone having a voice, not just the majority. The problem with the manifestation of similar beliefs and like-minded groups is that any opinion, even slightly contrary, seems extreme. Author George Orwell warned us all of the dangers of groupthink, and one of his warning signs is that any unpopular opinion will stand out like a sore thumb. As it is now, when a conservative voice speaks up, about 10 other liberal students will raise their hands in defense. This is what drives people to get news from sources biased toward their political beliefs, spend time on Facebook groups that reinforce their particular stance on an issue, and stops people from deeply investigating other religions.
It does mean you should try to acknowledge those biases with your children and try harder to present opposing viewpoints in a fair manner. A lot can be said on this subject. In fact, books have been written on it! If you are interested in more, I recommend the book Raising Freethinkers.
While it is primarily written with a nonreligious audience in mind, its main focus is how to teach your children to be immune to indoctrination, and instead form their own well-supported beliefs.
We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do.
What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be.
You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself — educating your own judgments.
Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society. Originally published at The Building Light. Skip to content. Written by unknown. What is the difference between teaching and indoctrinating? Is it Possible to Teach without Indoctrinating? Here are a few of the more standard definitions: to teach someone to fully accept the ideas, opinions, and beliefs of a particular group and to not consider other ideas, opinions, and beliefs Merriam-Webster to instruct in a doctrine, principle, ideology, etc.
Therefore teaching is aimed to impart knowledge or skill. Teaching focuses on imparting information so that students learn the proper methodologies and then apply the methodologies to make their own opinions in many things. Students may also question the information and the teacher in that case needs to satisfy the query by supporting it with proper evidence.
In some other cases, the student is free to make his own opinion after taking a lesson. For example, after teaching a moral lesson, a student may be asked: how he will react in a certain situation?
In this case it is the perspective of student that how he has grasped the teachings and then later is capable of making a decision. Now this decision again differs from one student to the other. One can expect numerous answers of the same question from the students of the same class.
This is also not wrong, something that has been taught is examined by students and that later helps them in deciding the answer. However, this liberty is not provided in teaching facts, but these facts are always supported by relevant evidence.
Thus, the questions can easily be answered by the teacher. Indoctrination means teaching or inculcating a doctrine, principal, or ideology especially one with a particular point of view, as in the example of religious indoctrination. In religious indoctrination a student is taught religious beliefs.
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