John Werth
1 min readDec 27, 2023

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What is political indoctrination? Depends on who you ask.

As my father always said, it depends on whose ox is being gored.

I, for one, would be glad to be free of the right-leaning, "education is for creating corporate drones," prop up the power of white Christian men, and stay fixated on the past indoctrination that has been the norm.

Einstein himself was a socialist, anti-capitalist, non-Christian, and believed in a one-world government. I'm not sure he's talking about the same people you are — imagine the S#!+storm if schools actually tried to teach that. The supposedly anti-indoctrination crowd would storm the schools en masse to make sure they only preached from their hymnal.

So, who's teaching critical thinking? It isn't the conservative white Christians who claim to be up in arms about education. They want anything but. Liberals can get weird, but at least they're breaking the mold and allowing kids to see new ideas.

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John Werth
John Werth

Written by John Werth

Musician and conductor, repairer of woodwinds, owner of dogs, band director, lapsed mathematician, and scribbler of thoughts on humor, politics or both at once.

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