Education and Indoctrination

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This paper discusses whether education is a form of indoctrination. In the author's personal opinion, education is a form of indoctrination in North Korea. It supports this argument by explaining that children are sent to boarding school from a very early age. Also they are taught about the communist system and they are taught to revere the leader, Kim Jong II.

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Conceptual Analysis: Is Education a Form of Indoctrination? 1. Model Cases Model Case 1: a. A situation in which I would answer yes to this question is the education system in North Korea. Children are sent to boarding school from a very early age. They are taught about the communist system and they are taught to revere the leader, Kim Jong II. b. This is a model case because it shows that education can be used deliberately for indoctrination. This is interesting because we might think that these two concepts have opposite meanings. We might think that educate means to open up the mind and indoctrinate means to close the mind. However, in this situation the education system is used to

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