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It's all indoctrination

Submitted by Deborah Hazen on Thu, 07/16/2009 - 8:04am.

"Teaching students to a adopt a particular methodology as an approach to thinking about the world is in some sense indoctrination." (Bob Hazen)

Does the methodology end or begin questioning?

One of my students is at a camp in the Poconos right now. This camp is not a Quaker camp and they do gather for the Pledge of Allegiance each day. The student is not accustomed to this ritual, having been educated in a Quaker school for the last eight years. In a very real sense he has been indoctrinated by Quaker educational philosophy and practice. He can react in a variety of ways. It is possible that he'll join in saying the pledge, maybe he'll get anxious about the time he has to gather with everyone else for the pledge, maybe he won't say the pledge in a knee jerk reaction, or maybe he'll have a little talk with himself about why he chooses to or not to say the pledge. Maybe that talk will extend to others and he'll hear why others do or don't join in this ritual. Life is a naturally emergent process.  

 

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