STOP the lies...

The purpose of EDUCATION is to teach people how to learn, to know how to acquire knowledge. Parts of the learning process are made up of interactive pieces that include: memory, language, attention, processing, organizing, writing and higher order critical thinking skills. This is what public schools are charged to bring to the students of their communities.

The purpose of INDOCTRINATION is to teach a person or group to accept a set of beliefs with no room for any critical thinking. 

Public schools DO NOT promote indoctrination.  The military survives on indoctrination, religious schools rely on indoctrination...brainwashing is hiding facts, not allowing student opinions, rejecting any ideas to the institutions beliefs and does not allow for individual critical thinking....

Books and libraries are essential to allow people to engage in the search for knowledge. That some humans are banning and attempting to control what others have access to is not only criminal and degrading but inhuman.  It is all driven by fear. Fear is what we get when we don't know. When we have no knowledge of whatever the topic is and do nothing to seek out accurate information and to question critically.  Institutions of all types have used the skills of indoctrination in attempts to strengthen their philosophical explanations forever.  

Staying quiet, not challenging, not voting, not writing, not speaking, not protesting only allows this disgusting behavior to surface and to take over the conversation.  

I implore each and everyone of us to do whatever we can to support, assist and encourage schools and public libraries to remain guardians of open knowledge.

When I was on so many State and local committees I made sure that people sitting at the table did not all think alike or agree....we need to allow for differences in all ways and always. This makes us all better. It's not about control, it's about knowledge and understanding.