Yes; it is. Teacher tells students something. Student is physically restricted from continuing on their life path until they memorize and repeat it as a belief,

Yes; it is. Teacher tells students something. Student is physically restricted from continuing on their life path until they memorize and repeat it as a belief, over and over again. Critical thinking would be like: - how can this be disproven? - what is inconsistent about this story? - what physical evidence would exist if this were true? - what sources can you find that contradict this explanation? - is [historical character] a believable person? Could this have happened with the normal people that you know today? But this is probably not what they have in mind. It seems they want everybody to accept what is written in their textbooks, and ignore other sources. Unfortunately, nearly everything in them is objectively untrue, greatly exaggerated, or over-simplified. How do I know this? Do I know the ‘real’ truth? I don’t, and that’s precisely why it works, but somehow every expert in every field will be the first to tell you that the textbook got it completely wrong for their discipline, and of course it was correct everywhere else. Oh and by the way, the other experts from the slightly-differentiated field are even more wrong.