This is not what education should be about, and it cannot be what education is about in any nation that hopes to survive long into the future. In fact, it isn’t education at all. It is, in a phrase, thought reform, which Robert Jay Lifton gave as the formal translation for the Mandarin Chinese , which literally translates as “wash brain,” or, more commonly, brainwashing. Another apt term in our more contemporary context is (cult) grooming. By
