Exposure happens when students encounter competing ideas about the world and have a chance to discuss them together. Exposure works against indoctrination, by opening up new concepts and experiences for consideration. It also builds students’ civic capacities and their participation in what University of Virginia education professor E.D. Hirsch calls a democratic “speech community” — a community in which a common body of knowledge is widely shared. This is happening less and less.
Education or Indoctrination Part 15
