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  • Back-to-school week – or Indoctrination 101?

    09/15/2004 4:36:03 PM PDT · 28 of 29
    land to JohnHuang2

    I know about indoctrination from first-hand experience in the late 1980's when I was an undergrad. The fear of getting a bad grade kept me quiet at first. Nevertheless, I quickly learned my lesson and I started to shy away from subjective courses and I took more analytical and math oriented courses such as accounting, structural engineering, and statistics.

    Unfortunately, I had many classmates who were indoctrinated. The bottom line is that if the students become indoctrinated then they never really learn to think for themselves. They mostly look at symptoms of problems in life and say, "Let the government fix that!" Never mind the fact that the government created the problem in the first place. Because they were so heavily indoctrinated, they focus on symptoms while ignoring the cause.

    Since it has been a while since I graduated, I can also say that most of my friends who were heavily indoctrinated did not pursue a profession related to their fields of study. I think that the indoctrination made them inept in a capitalist country. With all the indoctrination going on, all they got was a bunch of theoretical hogwash based on the now failed Marxist philosophy. End result: a lot of them went into law and I became an architect.

    My favorite link related to this subject:
    http://www.noindoctrination.org/
    Indoctrination is everywhere except at the Christian colleges. Where is everywhere? Public, private, large, small, in-state, out-of-state, junior college, four year college, ...