Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form of education

Re:Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form... by bluGill on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @05:09PM (#38091401)

Encouraging researching the scientific method is itself indoctrination, though it is done differently from other indoctrination.

This isn't bad. I don't think it is worth you while to research cannibalism, or a number of other things that people have done/believed in over time. Even if you come to the "right conclusion" there is just too much too research to look into everything people have come up with. My life is worse because I - a non-doctor - had to research all the anti-vaccination claims to see if they really were baseless (they were, but I know from history experts are not always right and once in a while a conspiracy really does occur)

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Re:Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form... by c0pium on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @07:09PM (#38092605)

> Encouraging researching the scientific method is itself indoctrination

Of course it’s not. Indoctrination is encouraging belief and adherence without question, the scientific method is to only accept after rigorously questioning. It’s trivially easy to apply that recursively. One who questions the scientific method is then by definition not indoctrinated and has not reached their belief via indoctrination.

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Re:Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form... by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @07:10PM (#38092615)

> Encouraging researching the scientific method is itself indoctrination

If you're thinking critically about it (i.e. testing it, questioning its predictions and assumptions, et cetera), it's not indoctrination. If it is, then you've broadened the definition of indoctrination to be equivalent to thought, which is a useless overgeneralization.

And to be clear, you can be religious and not be indoctrinated.

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