Beyond all their other problems, public schools are also a mechanism for indoctrinating children in different ideologies.
What do we mean by “indoctrinating”? This does not simply mean “teaching children things we do not like.” This means imparting ideological information as knowledge without any regard for critical thinking skills.
The lack of thought is key: Young people are given a world view by another rather than working it out through their own reason using available facts. No less an authority than John Stuart Mill opposed state education on these grounds.
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