I’ve just read this quote and I searched for the Mandarin translation. I don’t link the source (of the translation) this time.

“Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: ‘You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system.
Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself — educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society.”
― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

“每个孩子在他的学校生活中，最好被重复的告知：‘你在经历一个被灌输洗脑的过程。人类还没能够发展出一个不是通过强制灌输来教育的系统。我们很抱歉，但这是我们能够做的最好了。现在教给你的是你做在的这个文化的偏见和选择。随便了解一下历史，你就会发现这些偏见和选择是多么的暂时。教育你的这些人是适应了前人所开创的思路。这是一个自我延伸的系统。
“你们中那些更有活力和个性的人将被鼓励离开，自己教育自己 — 教育你自己的判断。你们中留下的人必须时时刻刻、永远记者，你们正被改造成为能够融入这个社会的狭隘、独特的需求”

多丽丝·莱辛的《金色笔记》

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