RandoNLD wrote:
Hardly any difference when you think about it.
Hardly any similarity if you think about it.
The term brainwashing was coined in the Korean War to describe the communist doing stuff to American pows to make them disloyal to America, or be commies, or like that.
Nothing to do with school age children.
You have to have something in your brain first (some amount of education and upbringing)... in order for your brain to be 'washed' of it. So you have to be a grown up to be "brainwashed".
So if you already have the belief that one and one equals two, and some cult learder convinces you that one and one equals seventeen then you have been brainwashed.
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If the topic is teaching children...
If a school system teaches children stuff you agree with ...then...they are "teaching values".
If a school system teaches children stuff that you dont agree with then they are..."indoctrinating".
Its a bit subjective.