Bishop Ma, we learnt, is being sent to political lessons - communist indoctrination by any other name - three times a week.
This album explores the journey of a human, from their abandonment and loss of hope, to their indoctrination by the system to be a human drone, to their eventual defection from their oppressors".
When rock bands do try, you see, people are generally unforgiving : take Muse's new album, for example, which attempts to bring our attention to "how the world is run by drones utilising drones to turn us all into drones", exploring "the journey of a human, from their abandonment and loss of hope, to their indoctrination by the system to be a human drone".
It is this intellectual ferment that is missing in schools today, thanks to a state policy which fosters a climate of indoctrination by default by teaching one viewpoint.
There are hints of a soft, bureaucratic dictatorship in the rigid exams that deny Tom a college education, and in the schoolroom indoctrination by textbook, which asserts that the moon landings were a Cold War fabrication.
In an earlier post, I argued that the real reason for the decline in religion in modern life is not indoctrination by liberal professors, or atheists, but an improved standard of living.
Indoctrination by religion or tradition throws up anomalies, such as a DJ at a night for gay people of colour who still plays homophobic dancehall records.
Each successive generation of Palestinian Arabs has been less amenable to a peaceful single-state solution, owing to indoctrination by their leaders, media, and schools of not only anti-Israel but anti-Semitic rhetoric and teachings.
In fact, the pro-Brexit witch-hunters are missing a trick: they ought to welcome attempts at indoctrination by anti-Brexit academics, since there could be no better way to provoke students to think Brexit must have a lot going for it.
The evolutionary biologist said that his child's version of The God Delusion, his 2006 bestseller, will help parents to protect their children against "indoctrination" by schools and even by grandparents and provide under-tens with a robust scepticism about religion.
