Education vs. Indoctrination

[Anomalocaris]

Education opens doors; indoctrination slams them shut

Not true.    Much of the useful things people learn, in addition to questionable things, are inculcated through indoctrination.


Education is required to validate substances of  indoctrination.     but IMHO majority of the people have neither the time nor the inclination for that kind of education, and accept indoctrination as a necessity under their circumstances to achieve the goals they seek through “education”.

I think a third element often overlooked is self indoctrination.    Many people condition themselves to think in a way that seems to be in congruence with their preferred belief system, or reassuringly reinforce their preferred belief system, without any external source of indoctrination.    This kind of self indoctrination often masquades as “independent thinking”.