Jason Stanley - Education vs Indoctrination

Jason Stanley is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. Before coming to Yale in 2013, he was Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He has also been a Professor at the University of Michigan (2000-4) and Cornell University (1995-2000). His PhD was earned in 1995 at the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT (Robert Stalnaker, chair), and he received his BA from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1990.
Professor Stanley has published four books, two in epistemology, one in philosophy of language and semantics, and one in social and political philosophy. His first book is Knowledge and Practical Interests published in 2005 by Oxford University Press. It was the winner of the 2007 American Philosophical Association book prize. Professor Stanley’s second book, Language in Context, also OUP, was published in 2007. This is a collection of his papers in semantics published between 2000 and 2007 on the topic of linguistic communication and context. His third book, Know How, was published in 2011, also with OUP. Professor Stanley’s fourth book, How Propaganda Works, was published by Princeton University Press in May, 2015. It was the winner of the 2016 PROSE award for the subject area of philosophy.

[@samcopeland3155]

I heard this guy is the Jacob Urowsky professor of philosophy

[@1-4Fun]

He makes a video of indoctrination versus education without defining either... Let me break it down for you: if you are educated you understand how to critically think and that it means far more than simply thinking critically about something. You can thereby come to your own conclusions formulating a strong foundation for why you believe what you do. Educated people know how to think and do their own research. If you are indoctrinated you *think* you know how to think for yourself (but you actually don't) and therefore anytime you are presented with real facts you will more than likely crumble into a heaping mess and more than likely resort to name calling. This is because you don't know why you believe what you do, just that others have told you to because if you do not then you must be a racist, or an anti fill-in-the-blank, or fill-in-the blank phobic. Indoctrinated people only know what to think because they let others do the academic work for them.

[@evelynparsons5426]

Outstanding

[@darkworld9850]

@@evelynparsons5426 Maria is a woman. Don’t listen to her. She doesn’t know the difference either.

[@terminatedaccount8750]

You're either educated or living a pavlov life 🤣

[@boathemian7694]

So you obviously didn’t listen? He made quite clear the difference…

[@1-4Fun]

@@boathemian7694 He gave his examples of what each were (in his opinion, as a means to indoctrinate) rather than giving you the actual definition of what they are. I defined what they actually are above. It's a bit like teaching a man to fish versus giving a man a fish... The first grants man the ability to fish for a lifetime and the other feeds him for a day, leaving him dependent on the man who gave him the fish. The same is true of education and indoctrination, respectively.

[@darkworld9850]

Now I understand why Bush graduated from Yale.

[@zwatwashdc]

Seriously? How can you present this version of reality with a straight face?

[@jordanbikes9511]

How can you rebut it? Seems everything he said was self-evident.

[@ericperry3638]

Education creates the ability of conversation which in turn can become a form indoctrination ,if the people your talking with believe ,,you can't have one without the other

[@11supplementfacts47]

Just incredible the way you explained that

[@TheRadioAteMyTV]

Once the word "marginalized" was stated, that was the moment this topic left reality and entered into subjectivity. Marginal is only accomplished with a zoom in method, and teaching general education doesn't have the time, no really it doesn't - that's why it's called general - to do such zooming in. Like all of the arts, the best rises to the top to be remembered, and that is true of fringe people's stories / perspectives too. For those who want to go deeper and zoom in on "marginal" points of view, the resources are abundant to do so, the same as in the arts. Expecting this to happen in K-12 outside of an elective is foolish and the epitome of indoctrinating. Funneling the masses views to the fringe instead of the broad story misses the need to see the broad. Seeing trees and no forest makes one not wiser but the village idiot. Allowing one to see the trees in the forest makes one a specialist.

[@carlimuzquiz979]

Great video. 😊

[@littlebill833]

Wow, we are doomed just reading the comments. I think it's time to forget about any kind of discourse with anyone. Really. People are mostly assholes. THIS VIDEO WAS GREAT! THANK YOU!

[@adammwalch]

All due respect, but you said very, very little

[@maydavis1973]

♥️♥️♥️

[@CMVMic]

So schools should teach children how to think critically?

[@tetrapharmakos8868]

Too much certainty! Not enough qualifiers or caveats. More epistemic humility please! Thank you!

[@blipped40]

Thought I was going to learn something. Nope

[@Thank-u-so-much-for-everything]

At least we learned something good or bad. Just like you learned through this video that you learned nothing.