The Fine Line Between Education and Indoctrination

Incident at Alberta school a good opportunity to reflect on teachers’ roles when it comes controversial issues

Schoolchildren take part in a climate-change protest in Edmonton on Sept. 27, 2019. We educate students when we help them think for themselves, but we indoctrinate them if we make them think like us. The Canadian Press/Amber Bracken

Commentary

Teach students how to think rather than what to think. We educate students when we help them think for themselves, but we indoctrinate them if we make them think like us.