Education Vs Indoctrination.
Education is the process of training the mind to solve problems and proffer solutions for the progress of the individual and mankind collectively. It is a gradual process of setting up thought patterns, setting up foundational blocks for the mind. The human mind or brain is akin to a garden that requires delicate nurturing, abandoned, it gets overgrown with weeds, pests have a field day. The essential feature of indoctrination which emerges then is that it deliberately violates the criteria of rational discussion to achieve a favorable outcome for the position being advanced. The mere exclusion of full rationality in itself is not sufficient, the exclusion must be deliberate and it must be done in a relevant context. It is logically necessary to the concept of indoctrination that the indoctrinated person arrives at the belief by non-rational methods. The majority of what passes today for education is indoctrination, you identify it mostly by a rabid defense of a dogma, or position t