It is primarily through formal education that a culture tries to perpetuate the ideas it favors and discredit the ideas it fears.- GRE Issue 39

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It is primarily through formal education that a culture tries to perpetuate the ideas it favors and discredit the ideas it fears.- GRE Issue 39

The speaker asserts that a culture perpetuates the ideas it favors while discrediting those it fears primarily through formal education. I agree that grade-school, and even high-school, education involves cultural indoctrination. Otherwise, I think the speaker misun-derstands the role of higher education, and overlooks other means by which a culture achieves these ends.

I agree with the speaker with respect to formal grade-school and even high-school education--which to some extent amount to indoctrination with the values, ideas, and principles of mainstream society. In my observation, y...

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