Education Quote by Neal Boortz

Boortz frames indoctrination as common sense, then dares you to pretend it isnt. The rapid-fire questions are a courtroom tactic: he never has to prove anything because he has already stacked the jury. By choosing Catholic schools, Christian schools, and military schools, he lines up institutions whose legitimacy depends on obedience to a central authority. The punch is in the implied answer: of course they dont teach dissent, and thats the point.

The intent is less to describe those schools than to smuggle in an argument about any institution that claims a monopoly on truth especially public education, unions, or government. Boortz, the talk-radio provocateur, is writing from a late-20th-century conservative moment where culture-war rhetoric treated classrooms as contested territory. His subtext: if you want schools to produce loyal members of the tribe, you dont design them to manufacture skeptics.

What makes it work is the slippery comparison. Pope, Jesus, and commanding officers are not just authorities; theyre sacralized or hierarchical figures whose authority is built into the identity of the institution. That lets Boortz suggest that questioning authority is not an educational virtue but a political preference. The line is also a quiet attack on the language of critical thinking: he implies that calls for students to question power are selectively applied and often code for questioning your opponents authority, not your own.

Its a cynical but effective bit of persuasion: it flatters the audience into feeling unsentimental about sacred cows while nudging them toward a more radical claim that allegiance, not inquiry, is the real product being sold.