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handle is hein.amenin/aeiaehf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Key Points In a derocratic state, pulic sro ,ace two divergent imperatives: (1) educating chil- dren to capably exercise their civi iberties and (2) moldino children to the culture Shared by adult rnernbers of the nation-state. To b-lane thesegoals, 2 to centurrofessionai educators taught curricular content autTh d by- L the gr--;enrnmert that was based on factua <nolvedge supporteo by enpiric: evidence. & However, basing ur iclurn on teaching emprical tacts alone can veer into indoctrina- tion, since such a urriculurn inherently requires judgrnent calls about wnich facts are wor teachng. s Instead, schoo hould center instruction on the reasoning involved in the developrnent and use of scientific ideas, rather than on facts therselves. Parents today all too often find themselves confronted with so-called axnerds and a large battery of mnis- guided apinion that says their children's education should be what th' call value-neutr-al Well, to e, and I bet most Anercants, a vaLeneutral education is a contradiction in terns The American p epe have always known in their bones how intimately knowledge and values are intertwined. The contrast hetween enhancing and suppressing the developm'ert of students reasor.in and intel- lectual abilit s has prohably been a concern to educator througliout th iistory of formali chol ing, Ho ever, it was onhy daring the iath century that scholars began to disinuguish between educa- tion and indoctrination to elucidate the con- trast. Accordiig to Merrliaun-Webster's Collcgiatr ik-:- tionar when the verb indoctrinat frst appeare in r7th-century texts, its ineaning was derired from the Lat i verb Uuchre---to teaut or inst uct A. that tine, indoctrination was understood to be -Ronald Reagan' simply what professiona' teachers were supposed to do. Then, during the i9tb century, indoctrination began to be used in the pejorative sense of causing someone to uncritically accept certain belief or principles and become, thereby. ill-informed and closed-mindce. During the early part of the zoth century, the ord's pej rative meaning entered cOmon parlance as a synonym for brainwasn- ing, especially regarding the inculcation of see- tarian and. partisan doctrines. ijre then, educa- tion has been contrasted with indoctrination to de- note forms of instruction that enhance---rather

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