indoctrination
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- noun
- /ɪnˌdɒktrɪˈneɪʃən/
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adoctrinamiento
- The documentary explored the indoctrination techniques used by some religious groups to influence their followers.
- political indoctrination
- ideological indoctrination
- communist indoctrination
It's more like an indoctrination, you know, process.
- It's more like an indoctrination, you know, process.
- These are relationships, like I said, of indoctrination, of the slow burn.
- So they ended up being more vulnerable to indoctrination and subscribed.
- You know, all these places are sources of indoctrination to our kids.
- But it's, it's the indoctrination of the narcissistic relationship, right?
- Whether it be philosophy, it could be woke indoctrination.
- And when I look at the indoctrination, it is Marx, fascist and communist.
- In that school you'll learn some mathematics, you'll learn how to read and write, but beyond that, it's indoctrination.
- But the next phase of your keep is you have to go to RIP, which is called the Recon indoctrination program.
- And she started fighting this totalitarian Islamic indoctrination that she knew was poisoning half the world, more than half the world.
- And I also think indoctrination and denial is powerful.
- But most everyone because of the indoctrination of a fast food culture.
Examples
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But I think I'm most optimistic because young people, you know, young people can be subject to indoctrination in education.
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So when you try to think about the future remember this, the process with which you think about things is based upon indoctrination, what you're given by your society.
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What is the difference between indoctrination and education?
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I would say it's probably incredible religious indoctrination that started in her youth.
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I mean, that is the level of indoctrination and control that these groups have over the thinking of individuals that are involved.
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Such programs are often referred to as values inculcation, values indoctrination, or character education.
Academic text (1991) -
Moral education cannot be indoctrination, but it probably should not be training in philosophical ethics either.
Academic text (1993) -
As a result of this indoctrination, men supposedly learn to devalue and exploit women as a class.
Academic text (1990) -
Many children experience indoctrination from an early age, often without realizing it.
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Teachers should focus on critical thinking rather than indoctrination when educating their students.
Synonyms
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A way of forcing someone to change their beliefs by pressure or lies
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Spreading religious beliefs to try to convert people
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Forcing people to give up their beliefs and accept new ones
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Trying to make someone change their religion or beliefs
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To try to make other people accept your religion or beliefs
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Teaching something again and again so people learn it
Teaching people a set of beliefs and stopping them from asking questions
Actively trying to make other people join a religion
How Forceful
Surface Forms
Morphology
indoctrination = indoctrinate (semi-transparent) = in + doctrine + ion
Forming the noun from the verb 'indoctrinate' with the regular nominalising suffix '-ion' is a straightforward morphological step.
Etymology
Indoctrination comes from the Latin root doc meaning 'teach', the same root you see in doctor and doctrine. It originally meant 'to put teaching into' someone, so indoctrination now means teaching people to accept certain beliefs without encouraging them to ask questions.