What is Orwell saying about education? In what way does this relate to your education?

seldom speaks about
education directly, as in schooling. We, for example, learn almost nothing about 's school
experiences except that he was taught a false version of history. Females, Winston knows, are
indoctrinated in the importance of chastity in school.

It is clear, however,
that Party members in Oceania are taught that obedience to the state is paramount. Beyond that,
they have all learned that obedience cannot just be outward: it is supposed to be internalized
as well through censorship of thoughts.

It is clear that everyone in this
culture who survives practices doublethink, the skill of knowing and at the same moment
forgetting an inconvenient truth. For instance, once Oceania changes who it is at war with,
everyone "understands" that Oceania has always been at war with the new
enemy.

Winston also learns through reading Goldstein and conversations
withwhen a prisoner in the Ministry of Love that the goal of the state is to dumb education down
the least common denominator, in large part by reducing the language to as few words as possible
to limit people's ability to think. The educational emphasis is very strongly on indoctrination
and obedience.

You would have to relate this to your own education. Does your
school emphasize indoctrination, rote learning, and/or obedience to authority over critical
thinking? It is rare to encounter a school, which is after all an institution, that doesn't have
at least a little emphasis on the above, but the question for you would be, is it excessive, as
in Oceania?