Education and Indoctrination

The difference between education and indoctrination is that education opens the mind, while indoctrination closes it.

Education is a process-driven approach to engaging in the knowledge and ideas of the world.

Education is playful, experimental, mysterious.
Indoctrination, on the other hand, is a results-driven approach that aims to instill in people a set of habits and beliefs that align with an ideology or political agenda.

Indoctrination narrows the lens through which we are able to see the world and insures that all of the information we receive is interpreted through the filter of the promoted ideology.

Education can be directly supported by data that is derived from facts. Indoctrination tends to use language that encompasses everything, referring to ‘all’, or ‘every’, as though the insights created are a statement of fact for each and every individual of a group.

Education points out that there are different solutions, often to the same problem.
Indoctrination poses the belief that there is only one solution to a problem.
Education uses statistical analysis to encourage thought toward reasoning, and proposed solution finding. Indoctrination often uses statistics, but has offered no analysis of size, duration, control subjects, criteria, or duration of the gathering of those statistics.

Education involves the seeking of facts, and learning about what is the truth, and what is not.
Indoctrination is aimed at influencing people to believe in facts, without being able to back up these newfound facts with anything but opinion.