Your assessment is not on the mark. There is a qualitative difference between, say, a history course on Israel, Palestine since WWI and using the course to push

Your assessment is not on the mark. There is a qualitative difference between, say, a history course on Israel, Palestine since WWI and using the course to push for policy changes in one's country's foreign policy. The difference is intent. Teachers disseminate facts and ways to organize facts. They should not intend to lobby or influence or to politically organize selves or students. "Teaching the status quo idea is just as much indoctrination as any other idea" The whole point of graduate degrees is make standard, known, accepted better by advancing the subject to the contrary of a fixed "fact set" grad students are encouraged to break doctrine wherever it is