Teacher Influence on Your Child - Education vs Indoctrination
Our children spend a lot of time in school. Sometimes they will learn things you as a parent prefer they didn't. Sometimes it's educational, and sometimes it can be indoctrination. In this episode we discuss both sides, what the gray areas mean, and why the lines get blurred sometimes. What's blocking your view?
Release Date: August 4, 2023
DISCLAIMER: Some hard and difficult topics. If you are easily offended, this may not be for you. There are sometimes some hard topics and hard truths, and if you are not ready for it, i suggest maybe to revisit at a later time when you do feel more prepared.
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Topic - Teacher Influence on your Child - Education vs. Indoctrination
Scenario - Scale from 1-100.
Your child learns something in public school that you don’t agree with and feel very strongly against. It is a social issue not necessarily a matter of fact or not. Something subjective. As the years go by, this ideology really stuck with them, but because of it, it helps them land this amazing job, and are now very financially stable and very happy.
On a scale of 1-10, how happy are you with the outcome? 1 being very unhappy and 10 being very content.
Adrian - 8/8
Vero - 8/8
Sal - 7/8
Scenerio 2
Your child learns something in public school that you DO agree with and feel very strongly about. It is a social issue not necessarily a matter of fact or not. Something subjective. As the years go by, this ideology really stuck with them, but because of it, it keeps them from landing an amazing job, and are now struggling financially and are not very happy.
On a scale of 1-10, how happy are you with the outcome? 1 being very unhappy and 10 being very content.
Adrian - 1
Vero - 2
Sal - 4
On scale of 1-10, should social issues be taught in school? 1 being no way, they need to learn it somewhere else, or 10 yes definitely learn in school.
Adrian - 5/8
Vero - 3/8
Sal - 8/8
Questions to think about?
Define: Indoctrination
to imbue with a usually partisan opinion, point of view, or principle
Indoctrinate means "brainwash" to many people, but its meaning isn't always so negative. When the verb first appeared in English in the 17th century, it simply meant "to teach"—a meaning linked closely to its source, the Latin verb docēre, which also means "to teach." (Other offspring of docēre include docile, doctor, document, and, of course, doctrine). By the 19th century, indoctrinate was being used in the sense of teaching someone to fully accept only the ideas, opinions, and beliefs of a particular group.
Education:
a: to provide schooling for
b: to train by formal instruction and supervised practice especially in a skill, trade, or profession
2a: to develop mentally, morally, or aesthetically especially by instruction
b: to provide with information**: INFORM**
3: to persuade or condition to feel, believe, or act in a desired way
What about you? What are your thoughts? Let us know.
