Education is one of the first thing that a corrupt regime wants to change because it leaves the first imprint on budding minds.
Once the access to wider narrative is blocked in the early setup, it is difficult to open up the horizon for a lot of people to accept what they were not aware of. This helps in building and moulding the narratives in a preferable direction to influence the larger opinion of the society.
This can happen on many levels from changing/editing the books, threatening the teachers with consequences, changing the leadership at board levels or by directly stopping the funding for those who don't fall in line. This sounds very easily doable for the people in power but this has a long lasting impact over the generations.
Not only does it hide the reality, it also rewrites the whole narrative to its own liking. The preference to such whitewashing leads to a lot of things unsaid from the history which further complicates the possibility of an open discussion about anything.
People can come out of such early influence and build their own independent and rational opinion but what are the odds.
Peace
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