Trump wants to close the U.S. Department of Education. He thinks the Department of Education has been indoctrinating Americans to accept DEI and “radical gender ideology.” He’s wrong.
Trump’s education goals were laid out in Project 2025. During the campaign, Trump pretended he knew nothing about Project 2025, but he was lying. Of course. The organizer of Project 2025, Russell Vought, was recently confirmed as Trump’s Budget Director (Office of Management and Budget).
Trump and his Secretary of Education-designate Linda McMahon think that the Department of Education is a hotbed of DEI and that it is imposing “woke” policies on the nation’s schools.
As someone who served in the Department of Education in the administration of President George H.W. Bush, I can state without qualification that they are wrong.
The career civil servants at the Department of Education are not educators, although there might be a few exceptions. They review and process grants and contracts. They organize peer reviews. They supervise authorized activities. They have multiple responsibilities, but writing curriculum is not one of them.
The Department of Education does not tell schools what to teach. It is illegal for any officer of the government to attempt to influence the curriculum of the nation’s schools. It has been illegal to do so since 1970.
The law states: “No provision of any applicable program shall be construed to authorize any department, agency, officer, employee, of the United States to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over the curriculum, program of instruction, [or] administration…of any educational institution…or over the selection of library resources, textbooks, or other printed or published instructional materials.“
The law is P.L. 103-33, General Education Provisions Act, section 438.
The ideas of diversity, equity, and inclusion are generally and broadly accepted by the public. They were not hatched by the Department of Education. They are baked into our American ideals of fairness and justice and opportunity for all.
The fact is that our nation is diverse. Banning the word doesn’t change the reality. We are a nation whose population includes people of every race, religion, and ethnicity. We are a nation of men and women, as well as people who are LGBT. Yes, we do have transgender men and women, and not even Trump can erase them.
Equity is a necessity if we are serious about reducing the vast economic and social gaps in our society. Here is one definition of equity, as compared to equality, as offered by the Annie E. Casey Foundation:
Well-meaning people often use the terms “equity” and “equality” interchangeably when discussing matters related to race and social justice. While both terms have to do with “fairness,” there are key differences as the application of one over the other may lead to drastically different outcomes. Equality requires that everyone receives the same resources and opportunities, regardless of circumstances and despite any inherent advantages or disadvantages that apply to certain groups. Equity, on the other hand, considers the specific needs or circumstances of a person or group and provides the types of resources needed to be successful.
Equality assumes that everybody is operating at the same starting point and will face the same circumstances and challenges. Equity recognizes the shortcomings of this “one-size-fits-all” approach and understands that different levels of support must be provided to achieve fairness in outcomes.
A highly circulated image seeks to provide a visual illustration of the differences between equality and equity. The image depicts three people standing behind a fence, watching a baseball game. The three individuals are all different heights, with the tallest of the three being able to see over the fence without any help. The other two are not tall enough to see over. Equality provides each of these people with identical boxes to stand on to peer over the fence. The tallest person, who didn’t need the box in the first place, now stands even higher, continuing to enjoy a perfect view of the game. The second person can now see over the fence, and the third person, even with the help of the box, is still too short to see over.
The image also depicts what equity would look like in this same scenario. In the equity version, the tallest person does not receive a box and is still able to enjoy the game. The second person is given one box to stand on, and the third person is given two boxes to stand on. Now, all three can enjoy the same view of the game.
The most classic definition of equity in my lifetime was contained in a speech that President Lyndon B. Johnson gave at Howard University in 1965.
He said:
Freedom is not enough. You do not wipe away the scars of centuries by saying: Now you are free to go where you want, and do as you desire, and choose the leaders you please.
You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, “you are free to compete with all the others,” and still justly believe that you have been completely fair.
Thus it is not enough just to open the gates of opportunity. All our citizens must have the ability to walk through those gates.
This is the next and the more profound stage of the battle for civil rights. We seek not just freedom but opportunity. We seek not just legal equity but human ability, not just equality as a right and a theory but equality as a fact and equality as a result.
For the task is to give 20 million Negroes the same chance as every other American to learn and grow, to work and share in society, to develop their abilities–physical, mental and spiritual, and to pursue their individual happiness.
To this end equal opportunity is essential, but not enough, not enough. Men and women of all races are born with the same range of abilities. But ability is not just the product of birth. Ability is stretched or stunted by the family that you live with, and the neighborhood you live in–by the school you go to and the poverty or the richness of your surroundings. It is the product of a hundred unseen forces playing upon the little infant, the child, and finally the man.
The speech was written by LBJ’s White House aide, Daniel Patrick Moynihan. A brilliant Harvard professor, he later was Ambassador to the UN and elected to the US Senate in New York.
As for “inclusion,” it’s a word that means nothing more nor less than all. We commonly speak of equal opportunity for all, not for some. The Pledge of Allegiance refers to “liberty and justice for all,” not for some. All means all. All means inclusion.
Pete Hegseth recently said, “Diversity is not our strength.” What a stupid thing for the Secretary of Defense to say in light of the diversity of our military. Does he want to oust everyone from the military except white nen?
When the U.S. team walks into the Olympic Stadium, it is the most diverse team in the world. I feel proud when I see them.
The fact is, my friends, we are led by a team of idiots. They are simpletons who want to turn the clock back many decades, at least to the 1950s, when the country was run by straight white men. Many barriers have fallen, allowing the rise of people who are not straight white men. (Trump actually has an out gay man in his Cabinet, the Secretary of the Treasury, but he is most certainly an outlier). Trump wants to restore the barriers that kept women and nonwhites out of leadership roles.
We have to push back every day. Don’t let Trump’s seething hatred and bigotry become normalized. Don’t let him wipe out 60 years of civil rights legislation.
At a reader’s suggestion, here is an even better graphic to define “equity.”
Diane Ravitch's blog 
“The image also depicts what equity would look like in this same scenario. In the equity version, the tallest person does not receive a box and is still able to enjoy the game. The second person is given one box to stand on, and the third person is given two boxes to stand on. Now, all three can enjoy the same view of the game.”
Is it just me or can anyone else here see a problem with this? With this particular solution only because of the question the solution implies? With how this particular solution can set off vicious cycles of contentious divisiveness, aggrievement, envy, etc. hence exclusion? That a different and more impartial question might yield a solution that ensures equity for all and thereby promote virtuous cycles of oneness, togetherness, unity, etc.?
I am of the opinion that a responsibility inherent in (what is supposed to be) our democratic government is that of continually ensuring we, meaning all of us, experience equity in “Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness.” The more and more government fulfill this responsibility, then matters of the fiction called “race” as well as inclusion become more and more beside the point.
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It’s a silly picture that represents a super-simplistic idea that doesn’t transfer meaningfully to any real-world situation. If you imagine it being applied to something like education, the implication is that some students need help (e.g. boxes to stand on) whereas others don’t and can just be left to themselves. Find me the parent of the child who is considered to not need any help and I’ll show you a parent who is really annoyed with the cliched distinction between equity and equality.
The idea that “equity” is good and necessary while “equality” is bad and regressive is Exhibit A in the museum of bad ideas popularized in the 2010s that fueled the backlash that helped Trump get elected.
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To teach the difference between equality and equity, I always liked the following analogy:
A parent has two children and gives a shirt to each. If the parent gives the same size shirt (e.g. large) to each child, that is “equal,” but it is not “equitable” if the same sized shirt fits one child and not the other. However, if (for example) one child needs a large shirt and the other needs a medium, and each child is provided with the size needed, that is equitable because each child will have what he or she needs.
To transfer this to education, I can remember a gifted 7th grade student who was able to score a 32 on the math portion of the ACT (through Duke TIP). However, the school was focused on trying to improve scores on the state test, and it was decided that all students would spend one hour a day practicing multiplication tables. Therefore, the school made this gifted child practice multiplication tables for one hour a day with all the other students. This “equal” requirement was certainly not equitable.
When the parents expressed concern, admin. tried to suggest it would be “good practice” for the student to reinforce something he had already mastered long ago. Fortunately, the parents did not fall for this line.
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If we could just use common sense—defined as being flexible and unburdened by rules and mindsets that might prevent us from seeing and choosing the paths that make most sense for each student—we might not need to have districts spend millions upon millions of dollars to consultants to reprint cartoons of kids on boxes and paraphrase the same six paragraphs about “equity versus equality” over and over.
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FLERP!
For decades, generations, “common sense” did not create mindsets that helped those who were left out, left behind, stunted by prejudice.
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If we agree that one of the main purposes of these “equity versus equality” talking points is to provide a framework for work focused on addressing racial inequities, then it shouldn’t be surprising that Trump’s administration is trying to extirpate it. This is the backlash. People may disagree with his view of “equity,” but let’s not act like he’s barking up the wrong tree.
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Trump is a racist and he brings out the racism in others.
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I agree. Btw, I also noticed the cartoon above depicts three people of color who are kept outside of the ballpark and have to look in over a fence while others are seated in the stadium. Though unintended, it seems to portray equity and exclusion.
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One week later, the fence has been raised so nobody can look in for free.
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Joe Nashville,
I like your example because it hoists the anti-equity people on their own petards.
Apparently, we are supposed to believe that “equality” – where every child learns multiplication tables for 2 hours a day regardless of their ability – is the highest goal and parents of gifted children and children with special needs should all embrace that, but “equity” – where each child’s needs are addressed – is very bad and hurts children.
I didn’t realize that school districts were paying millions of dollars to consultants who reprint cartoons – that sounds like something the doge “experts” found with their key word search “expertise”.
I find it hard to believe that anyone would see that drawing and miss the very obvious fact that children are standing on boxes so they can SEE A BASEBALL GAME. They aren’t standing on boxes on a random street or standing on boxes in a vacuum.
So I can’t imagine the heart of a parent of a tall child who would be outraged that the short child was give a box – for free! – so that child could also see the same game their tall child was watching. But I have no doubt there are probably some parents out of there who resent ANYTHING being given to a child who obviously needs it that isn’t also given to their child who doesn’t.
I think when they aren’t being so propagandized by right wing distortions, most parents whose kids don’t have special needs are incredibly grateful for their own good fortune and don’t spend their time being angry and resentful because some shorter children got free boxes so they could see the game that their own child was watching, except their own child did not need a box to see the game.
I also believe that most parents who aren’t being propagandized by right wing lies don’t think to themselves: we used taxpayer money for a bus to drop kids off at a game, and if the shorter kids can’t see the game that my tall kid can see, that’s their own darn fault and it wouldn’t be fair to spend any extra money when our tax dollars were already spent to get that child to the game.
Or maybe, with some implicitly racist parents who voted for Trump, whether or not they thought it was “fair” to give the shorter kids a box so they could also watch the game depends on whether they thought the shorter kid “deserved” it.
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Okay, y’all, I see it may be largely just me. As I see it, the implied question the image begs is, what resources need to be given the three children? A better question might be something like, what barriers are in the way such that if removed, then all three children would experience equity, no matter their differences?
Same question for education, I suggest. But such a question would make little sense to the give-them-what-they-need mindset in education. So, there should be no surprise that some children will internalize that mindset only to some years later express it as, “give me what I want. And if you don’t, I will take it or otherwise ‘mess you up’.” (Now Ackoff comes to mind).
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I prefer this version of the cartoon:
https://x.com/ClinPsychDavid/status/1407103431718969345
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It was a Yankees game.
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I like that Inclusion was addressed. However, what I see is problematic:
If the children are not just different heights but also differing ages, for the youngest child, who looks like Preschool age –most of whom do not yet know how to play team sports!– including them in baseball would usually not be considered developmentally appropriate practice (DAP). It looks like the adults wore mitts and helmets, while the kids have mitts but no headgear… Presumably they’re engaged in playing hardball and that could be VERY dangerous.
So the ways that people are included and how that relates to their individual and developmental needs, as well as safety concerns, matter a lot, too.
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The picture clearly shows the difference between equity and equality. Equity is about providing the tools and sometimes accommodations to help certain people succeed in life. In society it may be about programs and grants that are available to under served groups of people. DEI programs allow more people to get access to what they need to be successful, and I think they reflect what a civilized culture should provide so all members will benefit. DEI programs and education in general are under attack because people we used to call “the fringe” have taken over. These extremists are trying to use culture war issues to restrict and control others to solidify their power.
Make no mistake, these power mongers are up to no good. It is not about The Constitution or voting rights. They intend to upend democracy create a government where the few lead the many. They intend to exclude us from the decision making in the same way they are meeting with Russia and Saudi Arabia while excluding Ukraine in discussions about ending the war. Many in The Heritage Foundation and J.D. Vance are under the spell of a right wing guru by the name of Curtis Yarvin, who would like us to return to The Middle Ages. If you read his Wiki page, it should set off alarm bells. Of course, none of this content includes the parts the extreme right will say out loud, but it is easy to connect Yarvin’s influence to what they choose to attack. Rachel Maddow recently did a profile on this Yarvin character. If Yarvin is not on your radar, he should be.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin
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A clarifying addition:
“They intend to upend democracy, create a CHRISTIAN THEOCRATIC NATIONALIST government where the few lead the many.”
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“They are simpletons who want to turn the clock back many decades, at least to the 1950s, when the country was run by straight white men.”
I wish they were simpletons. Nazis harkened back to a history that was demonstrated to be totally false. Franco tried to appeal to the church, which helped him steal children and raise them to be supporters of his version of fascism. These people are no different. They appeal to religious ideals and old times of Leave it to Beaver, but they would appeal to Metallica or the Dolly Lamea if it would give them power.
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“Nazis harkened back to a history that was demonstrated to be totally false.”
For the Christian Nationalist Theocrats that false history is one that is/was pushed (yes as in a drug pushers) by David Barton and R.J. Rushdoony.
If you don’t know who those two are it would behoove you to learn who they were/are and what their xtreme Christian reactionary thinking is about.
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Of course education is local. Trump benefited in 2016 from many educators supporting Tea Party politics and the growing conservative movement.
I watched this change from my hiring in 1987 until my retirement in 2022. Gradually, a generation of very proficient teachers who tended to be basically conservative, but rational in thought gave way to evolution deniers, religious extremists, and a few generalized nutcases. It got to be hard to find the teachers cast in the mold I encountered when I started. A friend in Florida suggested their experience was the same: their school was increasingly staffed by conservative religious extremists intent on making sure kids were not being indoctrinated.
There are still a lot of great teachers, but there are also increasing numbers of teachers who do not understand their subjects and see their mission through the lens of the conservatives who are
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who are trying to destroy public education.
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They’re not conservatives. You and I are conservatives. They are reactionary/regressive xtian reich wing theocrats.
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I taught about this in my Teacher Education college courses, where I trained people to be teachers, and I preferred to use this graphic:
https://edu.lva.virginia.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/https___i.pinimg.com_originals_99_d2_1d_99d21da9e6a68f9e82222c727fe1c5d3.jpg
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Brilliant!!
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Somewhere in Project 2025 “Tool Kit” is “Keep them focused and complaining about social, cultural, divisive (in all the legislation here), and emotional issues. They obsess and it keeps our angry “base” voting (even though they are getting hosed by us, too).”
“Keep them taking up air and social media time on that! It just keeps on giving and they ignore issues like pardons, racist comments after plane crashes, 20-somethings hacking social security data “for” the government, gutting government agencies and services that do keep the country running, gutting protections of rights violations due to low staffing, cutting off aid to allies, incompetent loyalists in the not-diverse cabinet, and anything else that matters, etc. etc.”
This is how they won. It is why not one (ok, one) Republican representative or senator will stand up to the president and say “Stop! This is not who (even) we are!” It is how the press can barely cover a topic and the next tsunami comes thundering in.
When they talk about Department of Education, as cited in the blog, we should be talking about ENFORCING and ACCOUNTABILITY for violations of Brown v. Board, Civil Rights and Housing Acts of 1964, Title IX, I.D.E.A. and other federal laws and decisions. We should be talking about the Office of Civil Rights which takes everyday parents’ complaints.
But the department of education checks every box in their playbook. Perceived as bureaucracy, paper churners, and (general) welfare focused.
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Missouri, you hit the nail on the head. Trump creates a fog to distract us from the dismantling of our government. Talk about renaming the Gulf of Mexico. Talk about the Trump Resort on the Gaza Strip. But ignore the destruction of every Department and agency in the federal government. Ignore the weaponization of the Justice Department. Ignore the firing of safety inspectors at nuclear facilities and air traffic controllers. Ransacking of our IRS data.
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BTW, Hegseth is Horror Story best in show. I doubt there is a better example of unreflective self-projection and backdoor self-aggrandizement out there in the Press, except maybe Trump and Musk. CBK
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Yes! and this:
America: We Need to Talk—and Organize! (from Sunday’s USA Today online)
By Jack Burgess
We’ve chosen a President who pardons criminals who attacked our nation’s capital, killing police officers and threatening to hang the Vice President. A President who has allowed some of his super-rich friends access to government records and is attempting to remove thousands of hard-working public servants in vital government positions.
We’ve got a new Vice President who says women’s rights be damned, they need to be required to have more babies, while he and his boss are on a rampage to drive families out of our country–and though our population has more than doubled in a lifetime. These same guys have chosen an anti-vaccine person to be in charge of America’s medicine. And continued their attacks on public education by trying to foist religious schools on us—in violation of our Constitution–and forbidding university instructors to allow free speech or to go on strike. Add your “favorite” horror story here. We’re in a rough spot, as a nation.
How did this happen? How did this radical political group get a majority of the American people in the last election? Well, actually they didn’t really get a majority. Greg Palast, in The Hartmann Report, looked closely at the 2024 election and found Trump would have lost “if all legal voters were allowed to vote. If all legal ballots were counted Trump would have lost the states of Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia. Vice-President Kamala Harris would have won the Presidency with 286 electoral votes. And, if not for the mass purges of voters of color, if not for the mass disqualification of provisional and mail-in ballots, if not for the new mass ‘vigilante’ challenges in swing states, Harris would have gained at least another 3,565,000 votes, topping Trump’s official popular vote tally by 1.2 million.”
So—we’ve gota minority government strategically taking us—step by step–back to the 1920’s, when women had fewer rights, and most kids—including my parents–had to go to work instead of high school.
So what can we do? Wring our hands? Try not to think about it and hope it will go away? How about we organize–the way people have organized down through our history? Let’s not forget that in the 1800’s we still had enslavement—followed by something close to that—throughout the Southern states. We had children working in coal mines. We had food producers selling pieces of rat in the meat products. Workers getting shot dead when they tried to strike.
But Americans organized out of all that. And we need to follow their lead to defeat this current attempt by the super rich and their supporters—some of them deceived, some looking for personal gain.
Some folks have already started. Those who want to continue equal treatment for all—men, women, people of color, or white–have already targeted a boycott of some stores that want to discriminate. Those stores will find their business dropping off. That’s a start.
Then, what if folks didn’t buy the products advertised by TV networks that supported discrimination or the destruction of humane government?
It would help this process if more of the Democrats could find their courage and lead such a boycott. “Don’t mourn. Organize.” said famed organizer, Joe Hill. Robert Kennedy Sr.’s “Each time a man stands up for an ideal he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope,” is relevant. Hope is critical to organizing. So is strategy. Obama didn’t win just because he was a good speaker. Howard Dean headed Obama’s DNC, and they hired organizers for every state—who went door-to-door. The United Auto Workers didn’t succeed just because they sang “Solidarity Forever.” They occupied the auto plant and wouldn’t come out. I’m not advocating occupying factories, but I’m saying we’re going to have to do more than just talk. Or read interesting comments on our phones or computers.
Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez is helping people organize. “A lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too,” she said. “Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more. Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.” I say, We are the majority, and if we organize, small step by small step, as Dr. Martin Luther King would say, “We shall overcome!”
Jack Burgess is a retired history teacher who led the first teachers’ strike in Columbus, Ohio, and organized the West Side Civic Association to deal with traffic problems in Chillicothe.
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Well done, Jack!
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Stuff like this is why I read this blog. CBK
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As I posted earlier my Alma Mata, Texas State University, recently ended it’s Black & Latino Playwrights Celebration festival because of Texas’s anti-DEI laws that passed Jan. 1, 2024. I completely forgot about the fact that Texas State is also LBJ’s Alma Mata as well, making this shut down highly ironic.
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When Trump goes, so will his massive regime of censorship
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The day when Trump goes cannot come soon enough!
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Red states’ “DEI” laws most likely prohibit teaching about LBJ with his signature on the Civil Rights Act, Fair Housing Act, Voting Rights Act and others.
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How about “Harrison Bergeron” as an example of equality?
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Meanwhile halfway across the world:
https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/peace-or-partition?r=52qgim&utm_medium=ios
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Meanwhile, let’s terminate all newspaper subscriptions to U.S. Embassies worldwide. That is one way to end Education for any literate employee remaining in DJT’s employ.
Our State Dept has been ordered to commence the cancellation of news subscriptions around the world . Embassies and Consulates were told to terminate subscriptions to the New York Times, the Associated Press, local new outlets, media subscriptions, publications, periodicals & newspaper subscriptions that are not academic or professional journals. Certainly academic & professional journals will be axed next. Obviously this is a huge cost saver as well as a population decrease-er.
“Being cut off from news sources that are needed on a daily basis will endanger American 🇺🇸 Lives Overseas.”
A slide presentation read “This has been enacted in support of the administration.”
Washington Post 2/19/25
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Trump wants everyone to be as dumb and uninformed as he is.
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And while busy turning off ALL news subscriptions to USA Embassies & Consulates Worldwide. DJT turned his attention to shutting down a Big Important Library.
The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston closed abruptly Tuesday afternoon 2/18/25 with staff escorting visitors out of the building after the Trump administration ordered the firing of five employees that were critical to its operation.
The library, which is run by the National Archives, at first said it would remain closed indefinitely. “ The sudden dismissal of federal employees at the JFK Library forced the museum to close today,” the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation said in a statement. “As the foundation that supports the JFK Library, we are devastated by this news and will continue to support our colleagues and the library.”
The Kennedy Family raised Holy Hell and you can read the rest of this insanity at The Washington Post or any other news outlet that the regime has not yet shuttered.
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I wish you would publish the truth. The issue with DEI in Schools is that it isn’t used to actually include everybody. It’s used to separate people from other braces so basically black first white, etc., the diversity is there in order to turn everything into LGBT or race related BS in school and equity is not anything that needs to be involved in any sort of school in any K through 12 or upper higher education. This is all been a plan that’s been in place for years. It started officially during Obama’s beginning of his second term when he sent grants to schools all over the country through the CDC dash then they took the grant money and was displaced amongst. I think it was probably about 30 schools all over the country so those schools could try all the different ways that they had bought up to destroy EDUCATION, basically turn everything into a Marxist disaster. You don’t know that? If you don’t know that then you know absolutely nothing about anything and it makes me really sad that you hate so much in general that you’re willing to just let yourself be blinded to this and actually share post like this with people who you could convince and then you’re just adding to the problem even more than being one already
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Anyone who believes that the schools are saturated with Marxism is either ignorant about Marxism or falsely claims to have personal knowledge of 80,000 public schools.
I have news for you. The elite private schools are way more “woke” than any public schools.
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Another brain-washed Ayn Rand following libertarian space cadet who drops in here to rant, because they fell for party lines that they want to believe instead of considering history and facts, because they’d rather go with what they’re told and their guts instead of examining actual evidence and thinking things through logically. She’s from the same mold as her self-enthralled, ignorant president-become-king, as well as side-kick Richie Rich and his youthful gang of department vandals and info bandits.
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Sadly, this is what happens when a malignant narcissist, who is also a dictator-king-wannabe, leads the poorly educated to surmise that the worth of their beliefs and baseless thoughts are far above their actual intellectual value.
Thus, they are elevated from a groundless level and able to slide through to prominence, like people on the loyalist team he picks, because, if vetted at all, they are approved by sycophants and others fearing revenge for not going along.
The founders tried to prevent all this by putting in guardrails and stop-gaps, but they were unable then to accurately anticipate how a wealthy, lifelong con-artist with no moral compass in the modern age could maneuver around them and the rules of law –especially with the use of technology. Our only hope today is courts that he does not control…
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Since she said she wished you would publish the truth, even though you already do, here it is again (warts and all):
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/02/king-donald-trump-terrifying-executive-order.html
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And of course this: https://archive.is/2025.01.12-193657/https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/01/11/their-kind-of-indoctrination/
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