Analysis and Critique of the Liberal Education Discourse in Relation to the Concept of Indoctrination

In the liberal school of education, the factor of indoctrination with a disturbance in critical thinking and a deficiency in the power of rationality leads to the loss of intellectual autonomy and the independence of the student's personality. In this approach, instructional education, relying on the authority of the teacher and the educational institution, seeks to instill specific moral, political, and religious teachings in the student's mind. Hence, indoctrination is the boundary between good and bad education. But is indoctrination completely negative and inappropriate? Does liberal education itself have the characteristics of inductive education? This qualitative research with the method of conceptual analysis seeks to understand the nature of indoctrination in the discourse of liberal education. The research claims that the discourse of liberal education is not justified in indoctrinating other forms of education. Because first of all, indoctrination is appropriate and even necessary in some times and educational and ideological subjects. Second, the realization of components such as the development of rationality and critical thinking, and autonomy in an ideal and absolute way in education is not possible or even appropriate. Third, liberal education itself, by supporting the sources of power and authority of the hidden curriculum, seeks to instill a special doctrine of scientific objectivism in the educational process, and therefore its criticisms of other forms of education have a kind of self-referential nature. Therefore, emptying the space of education and training of moral values and religious teachings is a wrong and dangerous thing.