I come at the question from the PoV of my second degree. Education at the primary level is indoctrination: meaning and value is assigned to academic subjects quite independent of the value the students put on them. Every social interaction is a case of modeling whether you acknowledge it or not. "Taking turns", listening to a speaker, politeness, inquisitiveness...etc. Everything(!) is to some extent indoctrination: the basics of "how to act" primarily in an institution, and also as a social being.
It's not evil; it's how we learn to become human.
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