Some researchers are also wary of any type of advocacy in education for the fear of indoctrination, warning against using education as a tool for behavioral change, regulated according to predetermined guidelines.
How could learning to protect oneself against indoctrination be wasting one's time?
Michelle Edmisten, a founder of the Facebook group Sullivan County Parents Against Islam Indoctrination, first raised the issue in October, after her daughter was given an assignment requiring her to answer questions about the name of Islam's holy book, and the five pillars of Islam.
Of course, it's more than a little disingenuous of Peterson to claim he's a reluctant participant in cultural politics; this is, after all, precisely what animates his increasingly obsessive vendetta against the "indoctrination cults" of "totalitarian" left-wing academia.
"The struggle of man against power," Milan Kundera once wrote against a similar backdrop of Communist indoctrination, "is the struggle of memory against forgetting"; and, at nearly six hundred closely printed pages, "Beijing Coma" seems determined to enshrine the strivings of "the Tiananmen Generation".
Arab religious and political leaders do not realize that this indoctrination of hatred and violence against Jews and Israel in children has infected Arab society.
When parents across the Middle East protest against the hate indoctrination that is poisoning their children's minds and hearts as passionately as they have protested the past two years against corruption and despotism, we will truly begin to see a new Middle East.
To subject children to indoctrination in deeply personal matters against their parents' consciences is no less a violation than forcing Muslim parents to send their children to a Catholic Mass.
