[ExI] us

[William Flynn Wallace]

We attained our neurological maturity around age 25.  Before that, just how
dumb were we?  Were we very impressionable?  Able to be led around by older
and wise others?  Or were we just a little bit of an independent thinker
all along?

Here's a phrase from today's paper?  "..she was part of a larger movement
of teachers indoctrinating students with liberal ideology..."  Repub Ryan
Walter said "There is no place for a teacher with a liberal political
agenda in the classroom"  Conservative OK?

(the teacher in Oklahoma has provided students with a link to a library
that let them read banned books)

Now I don't know how much you know about brainwashing and indoctrination.
I don't know much.  But I do  know that extensive studies were done after
GIs returned from North Korean prison camps where they had been subjected
to brainwashing, some of them for years.

Results:  they found no GI who was brainwashed by any definition.  The
techniques simply did not work.  GIs pretended to go along with the program.

Note that the GIs were not neurologically mature.

Just how susceptible are our children to indoctrination?  Me?  I am a born
contrarian and skeptic.  But I don't know how I would have been affected by
such a program, though I suspect that nobody and nothing could have just
wiped out my opinions and replaced them at any age.

So I think this whole thing is sort of a straw man - few if any are
attempting indoctrination, and few are fully affected, and most of those
kids will develop different opinions before they leave school.

Remember 'Don't trust anyone over 30?'  Teachers are like parents - they
get ignored and what the peer group thinks is far more important.

We received 'sermons' on all kinds of topics from parents and teachers and
pastors throughout our youth.  How much stuck?  Of that that stuck, how
much of it was thoughtless. believed just because we were told?   bill w
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