[Tycoon]

Don't beat around the bush. The OP uses dress code to prevent individuality from causing conflict and removing a potential distraction and cause of grief. Why is it ok in your mind for schools to enforce a dress code in a public school, yet a catholic school asking for a dress code is brainwashing?

Oh come now, thats what brainwashing is right? Subtle hints and prods to get you to see things in a certain light. Schools do exactly that, they mold you into the proper block that colleges want and convince you to go to college.

You know what Helio? You're right, for the wrong reasons. You could look at these couple examples and say, schools use manipulation. But schools aren't intending to manipulate, they're intending to make the learning process as smooth as possible. Christianity manipulates people to make them believe in false beliefs.

Did you ever visit a wildlife or nature center during school? Did the democratic party show up in high school and offer a presentation? Were you required to do community service with only select school approved organizations? Perhaps not all of those happened in your school but they happen here in CT.

No, none of those things happened at my school. None at all.

And don't tell me you didn't have the DARE program. If were talking about technicalities isn't that technically brainwashing at an early age to hate drugs and not see them as a personal choice but an evil.

That's not what the DARE program teaches at all. They teach it's a personal choice, just that it's the wrong personal choice.

School instructs you to follow their line of information, and gain knowledge in it. You are discouraged from thinking outside the box they develop for you. Sorry, if your going to claim christianity does that as brainwashing you have to admit schools do the same thing.

I'm sorry, but when calculus teaches me the way to solve an equation I don't really see any out of the box way to look at it.

Repeat it three times wearing red glass slippers and make your wish come true!

See, I don't have to do that. I know that I'm right. As for you...

You ignore the main point and pick at a couple smaller points so that you can pretend to yourself that you're right. For example, just now, you're trying to prove a couple small ways schools brainwash, and you're completely disregarding the fact that Christianity brainwashes even more, and for the wrong reasons.