I was thinking of making a different blog entry but then I saw the option number 3 and the questions somehow connect to my supposedly topic so here it goes.
Indoctrination and education, whats the difference? Are they not the same? Answer is nope they are not the same. There is I'd say a fine line that connects these two ideas; both of them kind of come to the idea of teaching. However indoctrination and education have major differences as well apart from their similarities. Both are used to teach specific ideas and knowledge to any one possible but most of the time indoctrination has a negative connotation and education a much more positive one.
By definition they are pretty much alike and so it might be easier to actually understand the two ideas by their differences. Education by definition is imparting or acquiring knowledge; in short its pretty much learning and teaching. Indoctrination on the other is like that as well but the differences come in the way they are done. in education there is a vast ocean of knowledge where in one could learn and there is no limit to that; anyone can be educated anything. In contrast indoctrination is pretty much limited. The people who indoctrinate limit the knowledge that a person is supposed to learn and this is because they want only their ideas to be accepted. That's their first difference. Secondly in education not everything is good. There are some things that we might not like yet are still presented to us and that's because education is supposed to be not subjective to ones liking only but rather to the readied curriculum. Education has a system and not everyone may like. Same goes with indoctrination, it has a system but then unlike education the ideas that are presented are made to satisfy the people's wants. Most of the time in indoctrination the ideas are presented in a way that it appeals to a person's likes. The ideas are said and presented as if they are the best. They appeal to someone's preferences and also to emotions. In short, indoctrination is really one-sided and education not really, although there are certain instances that it is. There are several differences between indoctrination and education but these are the main ones.
Now the topic does not end there. So now the differences have been laid, what then happens if indoctrination is used? Answer is people learn, then believe, then blindly obey. Since indoctrination tries to teach things that are not necessarily correct to the minds of young people, actually anyone, in the way they would like it, these subjects then obey what they are taught. They believe that these ideas are correct, unquestionably true. So with these ideas their lives are based on and most of the time the ideas are not even correct. It is good that a child obeys that he/she is taught but then there are certain things that a child is taught, that are not true and correct. A good example would be Hitler during World War 2. Hitler used indoctrination in his campaign to killing the Jews. He set up Nazi schools to teach the young Germans about his ideas which are not really correct. Everything was subjected to his ideas; that Germany was the most glorious country, and the most destructive one was that they taught kids races ending up that the Nazi race was the most superior ones and the Jews the least. At a young age of 6 kids were already indoctrinated and because of this they simply obey. It didn't matter if what they were obeying was right generally but as long as it's their beliefs. Indoctrination promotes or results to blind obedience and not the real obedience. Obedience is doing what you are told but then only if it's the right thing. Real obedience usually comes with education as we have choices and its not limited to only one idea; but with indoctrination comes blind obedience: one only obeys because it was believed to be true and correct when in fact it hardly is. Obeying isn't always the right thing to do especially if what one is told to do is wrong, which in Schindler's List's instance is genocide or murder of Jews.
Indoctrination has a lot of negative things with it and personally it isn't the type of learning I would recommend. Education is still the best way to learn and impart knowledge. Not at all times we are asked to do what is right but we can always make a choice to do what is right regardless of the price we would have to pay in doing so. Everyone has a choice.
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