GAW- that’s exactly what I was trying to bring out. The teachers try to convince you of their opinions, but that is not necessarily brainwashing. It’s almost always not brainwashing in high school.
In seminary it’s a different story… you’re in a foreign country without your family and are more vulnerable and the seminaries know that. Also, they need to have their graduates convincing other girls to go in order to make money.
My seminary principal and many teachers tried the first technique of brainwashing, saying when you’ll be teaching and supporting your husband you’ll appreciate this tip giving a random money saving tip in a random lesson.
One of my relatives came home from seminary talking like someone who was brainwashed. None of her opinions were anything like when she left to seminary, and had no arguments to support why this was her new opinion when we spoke to her. She kept these opinions for almost a whole year, by which time she was married and supporting a husband in learning. Then somehow she woke up and became herself again.