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> Indoctrination (noun) - the process of teaching a person or group to accept a set of beliefs uncritically. I understand what you're saying about conflicting
by thundergolfer 7y ago
> Indoctrination (noun) - the process of teaching a person or group to accept a set of beliefs uncritically.
I understand what you're saying about conflicting value systems, but you're flat-out wrong that what the author describes is indoctrination. The key word from the definition is "uncritically".
Here's the key part of what you've quoted:
> they learn to think for themselves, that they ask a lot of questions, that they question authority,
All that is the opposite of "accepting uncritically".