Indoctrinate
verb
To teach someone to accept ideas or beliefs without questioning them.
The organization is known for indoctrinating people into their extremist beliefs.
Often appears as...
- indoctrinate into
- indoctrinate with
verb
Train somebody in a particular area or skill, especially in a way that involves uncritical acceptance of the doctrines.
She was criticized for trying to indoctrinate students with her political views.
Often appears as...
- indoctrinate into
- indoctrinate on
Usage tips
Academic
verb
To teach someone to accept ideas or beliefs without questioning them.
The organization is known for indoctrinating people into their extremist beliefs.
Often appears as...
- indoctrinate into
- indoctrinate with
verb
Train somebody in a particular area or skill, especially in a way that involves uncritical acceptance of the doctrines.
She was criticized for trying to indoctrinate students with her political views.
Often appears as...
- indoctrinate into
- indoctrinate on
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Questioning Discouraged
Indoctrinate implies the recipient is not encouraged to question what they learn.
The cult's leader sought to indoctrinate members by discouraging any doubts.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Negative
While often negative, 'indoctrinate' can be neutral, relating to firm beliefs instilled.
Her parents sought to indoctrinate a sense of morality and kindness in her.
Pro Tip 3/3Strong Influence
Indoctrination usually involves strong influence and can last for a long time.
He was indoctrinated into the ideology from a young age.
Pro Tip 1/3Questioning Discouraged
Indoctrinate implies the recipient is not encouraged to question what they learn.
The cult's leader sought to indoctrinate members by discouraging any doubts.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Negative
While often negative, 'indoctrinate' can be neutral, relating to firm beliefs instilled.
Her parents sought to indoctrinate a sense of morality and kindness in her.
Pro Tip 3/3Strong Influence
Indoctrination usually involves strong influence and can last for a long time.
He was indoctrinated into the ideology from a young age.
Pro Tip 1/3Questioning Discouraged
Indoctrinate implies the recipient is not encouraged to question what they learn.
The cult's leader sought to indoctrinate members by discouraging any doubts.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Negative
While often negative, 'indoctrinate' can be neutral, relating to firm beliefs instilled.
Her parents sought to indoctrinate a sense of morality and kindness in her.
Pro Tip 3/3Strong Influence
Indoctrination usually involves strong influence and can last for a long time.
He was indoctrinated into the ideology from a young age.
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Why do people join...
sometimes taking months to establish a relationship. In fact, more than two-thirds of cult members are recruited by a friend, family member, or co-worker whose invitations are harder to refuse. Once in the cult, members are subjected to multiple forms of indoctrination.
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Why it's worth listening...
if not with the speakers themselves, then with the audiences they may attract or indoctrinate. Through engaging, I believe that we may reach a better understanding, a deeper understanding, of our own beliefs and preserve the ability to solve problems,
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Interviewing a Former...
Within the echo chamber of the movement, the New Zealand shooter's manifesto is revered and used to indoctrinate new recruits. All too often, that's how it works. The speed of online radicalisation helps explain why race-based attacks are on the rise.
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Why do people join...
sometimes taking months to establish a relationship. In fact, more than two-thirds of cult members are recruited by a friend, family member, or co-worker whose invitations are harder to refuse. Once in the cult, members are subjected to multiple forms of indoctrination.
Video examples
Why it's worth listening...
if not with the speakers themselves, then with the audiences they may attract or indoctrinate. Through engaging, I believe that we may reach a better understanding, a deeper understanding, of our own beliefs and preserve the ability to solve problems,
Video examples
Interviewing a Former...
Within the echo chamber of the movement, the New Zealand shooter's manifesto is revered and used to indoctrinate new recruits. All too often, that's how it works. The speed of online radicalisation helps explain why race-based attacks are on the rise.
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Quote examples
Esme Creed-Miles
English Actress
I think growing up, the assimilation of most cultural conventions typically encouraged by a heightened awareness of gender and sex encourages a sort of separation of the self. What's so special about 'Hanna' is that her upbringing has negated this indoctrination; she's almost absolved of the pressures of gender or gender itself.
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Charlie Kirk
American Activist
While freedom-loving people like libertarians and conservatives wish to provide the illumination of facts and the focus of reason for young people so that they might see and think clearly, those who call themselves progressives favor the classic totalitarian tactic of indoctrination.
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Jerry Falwell, Jr.
American Clergyman
So many of the schools are just politically correct mirrors of each other. If you go to this school versus that school, you're just going to get a different version of the same political correctness and liberal indoctrination.
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John Barnes
People have been taught not just to have a negative perception of black people, but to have a belief in the superiority of white people. Their behaviour is the result of centuries of indoctrination.
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John Taylor Gatto
American Educator
In a home school, the kid does 95% of the work. But in a school system, since it's an indoctrination system, a teacher has to do 95% of the work.
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Thomas Sowell
American Economist
Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.
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Dorothy Day
American Activist
Together with the Works of Mercy, feeding, clothing and sheltering our brothers, we must indoctrinate.
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David Horowitz
American Writer
A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.
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James Baldwin
American Novelist
Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.
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Mike Cernovich
American Writer
My first marriage was ruined by feminist indoctrination.
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Esme Creed-Miles
English Actress
I think growing up, the assimilation of most cultural conventions typically encouraged by a heightened awareness of gender and sex encourages a sort of separation of the self. What's so special about 'Hanna' is that her upbringing has negated this indoctrination; she's almost absolved of the pressures of gender or gender itself.
Quote examples
Charlie Kirk
American Activist
While freedom-loving people like libertarians and conservatives wish to provide the illumination of facts and the focus of reason for young people so that they might see and think clearly, those who call themselves progressives favor the classic totalitarian tactic of indoctrination.
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Jerry Falwell, Jr.
American Clergyman
So many of the schools are just politically correct mirrors of each other. If you go to this school versus that school, you're just going to get a different version of the same political correctness and liberal indoctrination.
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John Barnes
People have been taught not just to have a negative perception of black people, but to have a belief in the superiority of white people. Their behaviour is the result of centuries of indoctrination.
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John Taylor Gatto
American Educator
In a home school, the kid does 95% of the work. But in a school system, since it's an indoctrination system, a teacher has to do 95% of the work.
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Thomas Sowell
American Economist
Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.
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Dorothy Day
American Activist
Together with the Works of Mercy, feeding, clothing and sheltering our brothers, we must indoctrinate.
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David Horowitz
American Writer
A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.
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James Baldwin
American Novelist
Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.
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Mike Cernovich
American Writer
My first marriage was ruined by feminist indoctrination.
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