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Q&A: Researchers claim mass education is designed to counteract critical thinking

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Education should encourage deep inquiry and personal autonomy, but too often it has been used as a means of indoctrination. That’s what Agustina S. Pagulayan, assistant professor of political science in the School of Social Sciences and Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California, San Diego, argues in her new book, Raised to Obey:…