Indoctrination Successes and Failures

... I am afraid that education is conceived more in terms of indoctrination by most school officials than in terms of enlightenment. My own belief is that education must be subversive if it is to be meaningful. By this I mean that it must challenge all the things we take for granted, examine all accepted assumptions, tamper with every sacred cow, and instill a desire to question and doubt. Without this the mere instruction to memorise data is empty. The attempt to enforce conventional mediocrity on the young is criminal.

Newfound clarity in the fog of an alleged war

The author reflects on their lack of awareness of apartheid-like oppression in Palestine despite growing up in South Africa. They condemn the disproportionate Israeli response as systematic ethnic cleansing, possibly evolving into genocide.