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# Teach Your Children How to Think
- URL: https://goodoil.news/teach-your-children-how-to-think/
- Published: 2022-03-28T01:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-03-27T08:17:30.000Z
- Author: Guest Post
- Tags: Education, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 01:12

**Kerry McDonald**  
[fee.org](https://fee.org/articles/undoctrinate-your-kids-pushing-back-against-classroom-and-campus-propaganda/?ref=goodoil.news)

*Kerry McDonald is a Senior Education Fellow at FEE and host of the weekly LiberatED [podcast](http://www.liberatedpodcast.com/?ref=goodoil.news). She is also the author of [Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1641600632/?ref=goodoil.news) (Chicago Review Press, 2019), an [adjunct scholar](https://www.cato.org/people/kerry-mcdonald?ref=goodoil.news) at the Cato Institute, and a regular [Forbes contributor](https://www.forbes.com/sites/kerrymcdonald/?ref=goodoil.news#36e691a46885). Kerry has a B.A. in economics from Bowdoin College and an M.Ed. in education policy from Harvard University. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her husband and four children. You can sign up for her weekly newsletter on parenting and education [here](https://go.fee.org/liberated?ref=goodoil.news).*

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Tolerance of different viewpoints and values is a key principle of a free society, and yet in classrooms and on campuses across the country, young people increasingly self-censor and self-silence to avoid speaking out against the dominant cultural narrative.

Some students may not even realize that there are different viewpoints and values, conditioned as they are from their early days of schooling to accept whatever their teachers say. And their teachers are being similarly conditioned, spending time in colleges of education that tie grades to ideological activism and link achievement to allegiance with an approved interpretation of concepts like “social justice” and critical race theory.

All of this can lead parents to wonder what they can do to help prevent their children from being indoctrinated into a belief system that may run counter to their own values or may not allow for viewpoint diversity.

The answer, according to Bonnie Kerrigan Snyder, is to *undoctrinate* your kids. Kerrigan Snyder is the author of the new and important book, [*Undoctrinate: How Politicized Classrooms Harm Kids and Ruin Our Schools—and What We Can Do About It*.](https://amzn.to/3L6CWuh?ref=goodoil.news)

In this week’s episode of the LiberatED podcast, I talk to her about her book and the startling trends she sees in both K-12 classrooms and on college campuses across the country.

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'Undoctrinate' Your Kids: Pushing Back Against Classroom and Campus Propaganda

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