The phrase "authoritarian education" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an educational system or approach that emphasizes strict obedience to authority and discourages independent thinking.
Example: "Many critics argue that authoritarian education stifles creativity and critical thinking among students."
Alternatives: "oppressive education" or "dictatorial education."
He had a beautiful singing voice, and the priests admired him, but he hated the authoritarian education.
China, a perfect incarnation of authoritarian education, has produced the world's best test scores at the cost of diverse, creative, and innovative talents".
Her Course of Popular Lectures (1829 and 1836) attacked religion, church influence in politics, and authoritarian education and defended equal rights for women and the replacement of legal marriage by a union based on moral obligation.
Interestingly, schools that provide vocational education where minority pupils are overrepresented tend to prefer authoritarian education instead of interactive or participative education (Mooren 2006; Onstenk 2006).
The style of parenting or teaching The authoritarian style of education is characterized by demanding strict obedience and by a lack of explanation or justification of the rules children and youngsters are expected to follow (see Baumrind 1966 ).
Many yearn instead for the kind of government that would execute the corrupt and build highways, railway lines and bridges at the dizzying pace of authoritarian China.* "Education as Liberation?" by Willa Friedman, Michael Kremer, Edward Miguel and Rebecca Thornton.
Mehmet Simsek, the urbane minister of finance and former Merrill Lynch economist in London, dismisses opposition accusations that his government is becoming more authoritarian and says the education reforms simply make the system more pluralistic.
I encapsulated my argument against installing "liberal education in authoritarian places" last year in a New York Times essay and, more thoughtfully, in the fine British website openDemocracy.
Its main appeal was to demand the removal of all unreasonable controls and bondages imposed on education by the authoritarian government and to return to the student-centered educational liberation movement.
Turabi, a brilliant politician with a British and French education, was an authoritarian ideologue, more in the mold of a Bolshevik than a hidebound cleric.
If even great American universities are joining a mad dash to offer "liberal education" to the authoritarian, bottom-line obsessed Asian nations on pretty much those regimes' own terms, shouldn't we all be equally comfortable when China, which censors its press (see the PBS story for an assessment of CCTV interviews), reports our "news"?
