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indoctrination

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noun

the act of indoctrinating, or teaching or inculcating a doctrine, principle, or ideology, especially one with a specific point of view: religious indoctrination.

Origin:
indoctrin(ate) + -ation

Related forms

re·in·doc·tri·na·tion, noun

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It is not education, of course, but as political indoctrination it will be highly effective.

I've been hearing these cries of leftist indoctrination in higher ed.

Which, if indoctrination of the girls works, seems a reasonable idea.

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It is not education, of course, but as political indoctrination it will be highly effective.

I've been hearing these cries of leftist indoctrination in higher ed.

Which, if indoctrination of the girls works, seems a reasonable idea.

Some have compared the indoctrination of young gangsters to that of suicide bombers or drug traffickers.

Blame it on my early indoctrination in the imperial system.

The results of this indoctrination campaign are already evident.

Ethnic studies has played a role in those scholarly changes despite relentless indoctrination that misrepresents its core values.

No indoctrination will be necessary, and he is likely to find few surprises.

What's disturbing is how young the recruits are and how vulnerable they are to indoctrination.

The political indoctrination and lack of science inherent in the presentations made me sick to my stomach.

Writings by philosophers who combine scholarly and personal perspectives on religious indoctrination.

It's not a matter of replacing secular state indoctrination with religious state indoctrination.

Overcome academe's indoctrination process, which tells you that leaving academe means failure.

But only if their indoctrination is not too entrenched, to close their minds permanently.

Many profs here who are committed to ethnic diversity have no problem with overt political indoctrination.

If a topic in education isn't absolute, then it is indoctrination.

The leftist indoctrination process of higher education failed to work on me.

These scenes are a humorous reminder of the susceptibility of children to religious indoctrination.

Mundane courses in political indoctrination are required of all and loathed by all but a few select cadres.

And the wearing of a religious symbol by a child is a far cry from religious indoctrination by the state.

Religious indoctrination of children may account for many cases of feeling a sense of loss.

Castro has used education as a tool for political indoctrination.

It's too bad, because you're right that indoctrination without consent happens on both ends of the political/religious spectrum.

Fifty-plus years of government propaganda and indoctrination have further embedded these beliefs in the populace.

She did not go through months, or even weeks, of indoctrination before setting out last month on a suicide bombing mission.

It really bothered me to watch the mumbo-jumbo indoctrination of children not old enough to understand what was going.

All did so in almost identical phrases, indicating that heavy-handed indoctrination continues, even of top officials.

I'ts a matter of abolishing state indoctrination altogether:.

For the next six weeks she was kept in a closet, blindfolded, and subjected to periodic indoctrination by her captors.

He said the movie was used as an example of the indoctrination of white hatred of black people.

Intentional restriction to one point-of-view is indoctrination and clearly demonstrates intolerance.

Yet his indoctrination from them he thought invaluable.

Rather, the issue is with their monolithic adherence to left-wing dogma, and indoctrination of students.

It was a wake-up call, his indoctrination into baseball.

What followed was a full indoctrination into the special needs world.

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World English Dictionary

indoctrinate (ɪnˈdɒktrɪˌneɪt)

—vb
1.	to teach (a person or group of people) systematically to accept doctrines, esp uncritically
2.	rare to impart learning to; instruct

indoctri'nation

—n

in'doctrinator

—n

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"The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control—"indoctrination" we might say—exercised through the mass media."

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