The indoctrination of the youth lays the groundwork for every dictatorship, molding pliable minds into instruments of control. By manipulating education and media, regimes ensure loyalty and suppress dissent, perpetuating cycles of oppression. #3E
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The power of propaganda is it replaces critical thought w/ emotional loyalty; so facts become irrelevant, & allegiance becomes absolute. Propaganda thrives not on truth, but on repetition. When sufficiently indoctrinated, even the most baseless claims are echoed as gospel.
Students not reading any more and doing their work on ChatGPT or just copying the work someone posts to the group chat — this has radically downgraded thinking and communication skills.
I’ve watched it happen over the past 26 years of teaching. And here we are.
Everyone naturally wants that. It’s a matter of defeating the policies, structures and situations in place that defeat and manipulate such natural drives.
Which is why the UCP in Alberta been rewriting the grade school curriculum. The Northwest Territories followed the AB curriculum until about two years ago, but switched to BC’s, due to the ‘absence of critical thinking opportunities and inadequate representation of diverse identities and cultures..’
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1. Military and police control forces people to do what you want.
2. Media and information control makes people think what you want.
3. Educational control makes people feel and truly believe what you want.
I’ve watched it happen over the past 26 years of teaching. And here we are.
How do we make people *want* to do the work, *want* to be smart?
Endless scrolling.
Social media stickyness
Cell Phones in Schools
Digital grading and instant grade notifications.
AI.
Rhetoric
https://teachers.ab.ca/news/new-draft-social-studies-curriculum-sparks-criticism#:~:text=The%20group%20posted%20an%20open,improved%20from%20the%202021%20draft.