I don't think we have a better option but school is definitely a brainwashing institution. A curriculum created by the government whose interest it is to make children support that government and the society under that government isn't going to be anything other than brainwashing. Even when the people writing the textbooks aren't actively thinking about brainwashing they're still generally going to at least subconsciously write chapters and use word choices that some radical anarchist probably would have issues with and often rightfully so. Imagine how almost two decades of that at your most formative years would channel your attitudes and thought processes for the rest of your life.
I say this as someone who thinks that parents are likewise a form of societal indoctrination but also doesn't think that there's a workable alternative so take that as you will.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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