The MKUltra defense will be an interesting one but it wouldn't fly in a military court. That's just like saying "I was just following orders when I murdered everyone in that village."
Anyone who's ever been on a college campus and seen the "caliber" of education majors knows that the education system is a joke. My personal experience (mid-2000s), they're usually promiscuous women who drink too much and have 4.0 GPAs though they don't understand basic arithmetic. More school, less learning. That's been the agenda all along.