It is as political as the other practice, which does not conceal - in fact, which proclaims - its own political character. ( However, the essentially political nature of education does not mean that we can dismiss worries of bias and indoctrination. In relation to this, Roberts (1999: 20) makes an important distinction between ‘(a) transmitting a political or moral view and (b) doing this in a dogmatic way’. While we can certainly not avoid the former, all efforts must be made to avoid the latter, and students should be allowed to form their own views in dialogue with the teacher and other students. This question is particularly salient in those contexts in the Commonwealth that are currently experiencing conflict or which have experienced it in the recent past.