indoctrination

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Making Our Children More Humane

Posted by zoeweil ⋅ August 8, 2011 ⋅ 12 Comments

For my blog post today, I’m sharing a recent post I wrote for Care2.com, an online community for people passionate about creating a better world. Here’s an excerpt from Making Our Children More Humane: In his book, Teacher and Child, Haim Ginott shares a letter provided to all the teachers in a school on the … Continue reading »

Ethics Without Indoctrination

Posted by zoeweil ⋅ December 22, 2010 ⋅ Leave a Comment

In an essay entitled “Ethics Without Indoctrination” in a now 20-year-old issue of Educational Leadership, Richard W. Paul writes: “If we bring ethics into the curriculum – and we should – we must take pains to ensure that we do so in a morally unobjectionable manner. This requires us to distinguish clearly between espousing the … Continue reading »

Education is Not Indoctrination

Posted by zoeweil ⋅ September 8, 2010 ⋅ 10 Comments

There are some who argue that education is virtually always synonymous with indoctrination, and those who hold this position certainly have evidence to support it. The U.S. government removed native children from their homes, put them in boarding schools, forbade them from speaking their own languages, and indoctrinated them with very specific values and beliefs. … Continue reading »