Monday, January 17, 2005
Indoctrination
In the Agora has a reaction piece to the WSJ article about indoctrination of our youth by liberals and conservatives.
IA has this to say:
"Two observations spring to mind. The first is that this is a crassly reprehensible act. Children of fourteen or fifteen are incapable of having well-thought-out opinions on either civil liberties or evolution, and the pedagogies their well-meaning but harmful parents are afflicting them with guarantee that they will never learn how to critically examine other positions."
If parents want to indoctrinate their children, or go to a church that does it, that's their right. It may be repugnant to some, but all of our parents indoctrinated us in some way (if they cared at all). They're the people we get our values from in general.
What bothers me are institutions that have captive audiences using their power to indoctrinate.
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IA has this to say:
"Two observations spring to mind. The first is that this is a crassly reprehensible act. Children of fourteen or fifteen are incapable of having well-thought-out opinions on either civil liberties or evolution, and the pedagogies their well-meaning but harmful parents are afflicting them with guarantee that they will never learn how to critically examine other positions."
If parents want to indoctrinate their children, or go to a church that does it, that's their right. It may be repugnant to some, but all of our parents indoctrinated us in some way (if they cared at all). They're the people we get our values from in general.
What bothers me are institutions that have captive audiences using their power to indoctrinate.
# posted by Joe Florida @ 10:42 AM 
