"Without looking it up, and as precisely as you can, what would you say is the difference between 'indoctrination' and 'education'?" -- Sarah Haider ([twitter.com profile] SarahTheHaider), 2020-04-22
"Indoctrination in X trains you to question everything but X.
You've got a way too nice an idea of indoctrination. In most cases, likely in almost all cases, indoctrination trains the subject to not question anything, which is understandable because one question may likely lead to a second and third question, which, given enough time could lead to questioning the indoctrination and even the reason for the indoctrination. One would expect that 'high level' indoctrination would also give pat/canned 'answers' to formula 'questions' that require only regurgitation, not thinking, to respond with if/when an outsider confronts the indoctrinee.
Curiously focused....
In most cases, likely in almost all cases, indoctrination trains the subject to not question anything, which is understandable because one question may likely lead to a second and third question, which, given enough time could lead to questioning the indoctrination and even the reason for the indoctrination.
One would expect that 'high level' indoctrination would also give pat/canned 'answers' to formula 'questions' that require only regurgitation, not thinking, to respond with if/when an outsider confronts the indoctrinee.