children failing to learn the state-required material (mandatory curriculum) can be required to sit through it year after year until they demonstrate that the material has been sufficiently implanted. This method of "compulsory education" meets my dictionary's definition of brainwashing. whether the material "taught" is based on liberal, commiserative , religious, communistic, democratic, or fascist ideologies, the government school system method of delivery is founded on compulsion , coercion ,force