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**km2000** · 04-23-2011, 09:11 AM

Looking arround for some quotes from Niels Bohr I found one of Doris Lessing. Needless to say I have never read any of Lessing's books so I really can't tell about her, but the quote caught my attention:

"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 accomodate 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 judgement. 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 society."

Doris Lessing
Do you think that the quote can be related with the aim of learning from the teaching as it was given, at least in the Pali, leaving us at the mercy of our own process of understanding, freeing ourselves from the different Buddh-isms?

04-23-2011, 09:11 AM	#1
km2000 Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 419 Senior Member	Comparing a quote to Buddhism Looking arround for some quotes from Niels Bohr I found one of Doris Lessing. Needless to say I have never read any of Lessing's books so I really can't tell about her, but the quote caught my attention: "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 accomodate 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 judgement. 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 society." Doris Lessing Do you think that the quote can be related with the aim of learning from the teaching as it was given, at least in the Pali, leaving us at the mercy of our own process of understanding, freeing ourselves from the different Buddh-isms?
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