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One of the things Abraham Lincoln pushed was public education.
I will have to admit when I was in public schools in the 50s and 60s we had no really bad indoctrination. We had Bible reading every morning and said the pledge of allegiance. We were taught patriotism, decency etc.
The problem tho is that they have your children for a good part of their lives and if they want to they can and now do, try to turn them into little communists.
I think this is a natural development from having established teachers as a specially-credentialed “profession,” rather than simply as people who know more than the students. Remember Laura Ingalls’s state teaching exam? It was all about knowledge of math, history, and grammar. She hadn’t even graduated high school at the time.
Just as lawyers have taken over the government and proliferated laws, the educationally-credentialed have taken over schooling for their own benefit.