Comments on: Thoughts on Indoctrination http://www.richardmondello.com/2007/07/12/thoughts-on-indoctrination/ Life of a Student at Tufts University Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:34:45 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ricky Mondello http://www.richardmondello.com/2007/07/12/thoughts-on-indoctrination/#comment-6 Ricky Mondello Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:37:14 +0000 http://exposay.net/2007/07/12/thoughts-on-indoctrination/#comment-6 Say it ain't so Kim! Not possible! Well, I think you're right, but I leave the question open. Ekk, the Pledge. Honestly, I can't stand watching a standing group of children say it. But, recently in Dover, I don't see too many people saying it at all. They just stand up, instead. It could have something to do with apathy as they get older, or maybe everyone's terribly mad at their government. Right now I'm reading Al Gore's The Assault on Reason, and it has so many ideas that relate to this discussion. I recommend it as a read to everyone. Say it ain’t so Kim! Not possible!

Well, I think you’re right, but I leave the question open.

Ekk, the Pledge. Honestly, I can’t stand watching a standing group of children say it. But, recently in Dover, I don’t see too many people saying it at all. They just stand up, instead. It could have something to do with apathy as they get older, or maybe everyone’s terribly mad at their government.

Right now I’m reading Al Gore’s The Assault on Reason, and it has so many ideas that relate to this discussion. I recommend it as a read to everyone.

]]> By: Kim http://www.richardmondello.com/2007/07/12/thoughts-on-indoctrination/#comment-5 Kim Fri, 13 Jul 2007 05:41:23 +0000 http://exposay.net/2007/07/12/thoughts-on-indoctrination/#comment-5 Definitely not possible to isolate children from opinions unless they are physically isolated from everyone and everything else in the world-- and that's not a bad thing. The exchange of ideas is what makes it possible to form informed opinions. There's definitely cases of parents indoctrinating children in a way that's pretty much disgusting (I caught part of the History Channel's special on the KKK, just enough to see their leader address them with a sleeping baby in a white hood in his arms). But if you look at it in another light, you could say the parents are instilling their values in their children. That might be troubling if you disagree with those values, but it's a better alternative than leaving them to get their values from who knows where. And for the record, the creepiest example of mainstream indoctrination I know: The Pledge of Allegiance. Definitely not possible to isolate children from opinions unless they are physically isolated from everyone and everything else in the world– and that’s not a bad thing. The exchange of ideas is what makes it possible to form informed opinions. There’s definitely cases of parents indoctrinating children in a way that’s pretty much disgusting (I caught part of the History Channel’s special on the KKK, just enough to see their leader address them with a sleeping baby in a white hood in his arms). But if you look at it in another light, you could say the parents are instilling their values in their children. That might be troubling if you disagree with those values, but it’s a better alternative than leaving them to get their values from who knows where.

And for the record, the creepiest example of mainstream indoctrination I know: The Pledge of Allegiance.

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