[–] oedipusaurus_rex 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago
I don't think it works that way either. Lets take you for instance. I'm assuming that you went to public school, at least for a while. How thoroughly are you brainwashed?
Our public school system is made up of, and ran by people. Lots of them. These people have differing personalities, intelligence levels, skill sets, and loyalties. Students are going to gravitate towards the teachers and faculty that they most agree with philosophically, and they are going to ignore/actively work against the faculty that they disagree with. Brainwashing doesn't work in an environment as clickish as public school. If you want to brainwash your kids, send them to military school or boot camp.
That's based off of my experience though. If you don't want your kids brainwashed, try telling them that they shouldn't trust adults until those adults earn their trust.
[–] selpai 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago
The problem isn't philosophical indoctrination. The major problems are the promotion and rigid enforcement of PC culture, selective & sometimes outright erroneous historical narrative, and focus on the spartan aggregate of logical & linguistical intelligences, which offers a rather limited assessment of a persons capacities.
[–] oedipusaurus_rex 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago
PC culture has it's place. It works well in work environments where a bunch of different people from different places get together with a common goal. PC culture cuts down on infighting within that group. It just so happens that schools are places where people from different walks of life congregate with the single goal of learning how to be a functioning member of society. ALSO, and this is important (notice the capitalization), schools are there to supplement the learning that a child is supposed to be getting from home, not replace it. Parents still have the responsibility to teach their children. If all the kids are getting is an education from school then that's the parent's fault.
The historical narrative is always selective and erroneous, regardless of who is teaching it and what they say. It gets worse the further you go back too.
When you raise an argument about the logical and linguistic intelligences being the only focus of public school, I point you to my argument about how schools are there to supplement the education that a parent gives a child. They aren't there to replace it.