This thread will be about the methods to educate children.
Preface: Education is not Indoctrination. Education implies a beneficial approach to learning in general while Indoctrination is generally detrimental. Therefore it is in the the benefit of all children or anybody to be educated rather than to be indoctrinated. Indoctrination, almost always, or always, is to push a political ideology onto children which benefits a third-party. It is not intended to benefit the children, and can even be disastrous to them. An example of this would be religious indoctrination (which they call ‘education’) where one group intends to harm, maim, or destroy other groups. Thus the children are used as pawns, or intended to be, in somebody else’s game (usually their government or authorities).
Indoctrination is common. Education is rare. Education is rare because ‘honest’ approaches to learning are rare. There are many disputes and distinctions about how to educate children in general. Since children have such malleable and changeable minds, they are easy to manipulate and lead into falsities. Thus children attract predators, or even predatory institutions. Institutions want to “educate” (indoctrinate) children because then allegiance is owed to their own foundation rather than another’s. Therefore there are many different groups competing to indoctrinate children, so that their own institutions rise in power.
A military school, a public school, a private school, a church school, all of them have their own motivations, loyalties, and institutions to maintain. They all have a status-quo.
However real ‘education’ begins between biological parent and child. Thus education between a non-biological peer, a “teacher”, a professor, a priest, whomever, is secondary. State-schools, the most common schooling, is secondary-schooling. It is already removed from the biological education. Secondary-schooling is most popular because societies, cultures, and civilizations have over time specialized, and so send children to teaching specialists. The implication is that an average “teacher”, socially sanctioned, is a superior teacher than the biological parents. This makes sense in certain ways, such that a teacher who teaches Electricity and Electricians, cannot be mimicked by average parents. Because the Electrician teacher is a specialist, and that knowledge cannot be replicated, copied, or imitated by others. This is the means by which common people justify public, common, secondary, and state-schooling methods.
The rationale is that it is better that children enter and graduate such institutions, as a means to access specialized fields. This is sensible and reasonable, but flawed in many other ways.
There are disputes in many matters, between parents and teachers, school-boards, the state, and policies. In essence, modern secondary-schooling is primarily a socializing exercise. The bottom-line practicality is to socialize young children so as to induct them into greater society. The more rebellious and anti-social a child is, the more s/he is forced against will to fall in line with social and state status-quos. This is what is meant by “the status-quo” throughout society. It reflects upon the foundation and fundamental styles of educations that everybody receives, or does not receive. And to support the status-quo, is to reinforce the ways in which children are educated, socialized, and learn, which extends throughout everybody’s lives.
More to come,
Feel free to add questions and insights anytime.