indoctrination

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in·doc·tri·nate

(ĭn-dŏk′trə-nāt′)

tr.v. in·doc·tri·nat·ed, in·doc·tri·nat·ing, in·doc·tri·nates

1. To instruct in a body of doctrine or principles.

2. To imbue with a partisan or ideological point of view: children who had been indoctrinated against their parents' values.

in·doc′tri·na′tion n.

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Noun

indoctrination - teaching someone to accept doctrines uncritically

teaching, pedagogy, instruction - the profession of a teacher; "he prepared for teaching while still in college"; "pedagogy is recognized as an important profession"

brainwashing - forcible indoctrination into a new set of attitudes and beliefs

inculcation, ingraining, instilling - teaching or impressing upon the mind by frequent instruction or repetition

indoctrination

noun brainwashing, schooling, training, instruction, drilling, inculcation political indoctrination classes

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Translations

تلقين مَذْهَب، غَرْس عَقيدَه

vštěpování ideí

indoktrinering

Indoktrination Unterweisung

endoctrinement

belenevelés-sulykolás

innræting

addottrinamento indottrinamento

indoktrinering

vštepovanie myšlienok

aşılamatelkin etme

灌输

indoctrination

[ɪnˌdɒktrɪˈneɪʃən] N → adoctrinamiento m

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indoctrination

[ɪnˌdɒktrɪˈneɪʃ^ən] n → endoctrinement m

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indoctrination

n → Indoktrination f

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indoctrination

[ɪnˌdɒktrɪˈneɪʃ/ən] n → indottrinamento

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indoctrinate

(inˈdoktrineit) verb

to fill with a certain teaching or set of opinions, beliefs etc. The dictator tried to indoctrinate schoolchildren with the ideals of his party.

inˌdoctriˈnation noun

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Asked what the policemen to be deployed in school campuses would be doing, he replied: 'talk to the children, offer parallel indoctrination to counter the indoctrination by the communists.

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Government troops on Sunday overran a New People's Army (NPA) training and indoctrination lair in Sitio Lagmak of Barangay Pagsangahan, General Nakar town in Quezon province.

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Polish bishops on Saturday denounced Swedish furniture giant Ikea for what it called "LGBT indoctrination" after an employee was sacked for refusing to take down a homophobic comment he posted on the firm's internal website.

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Earlier today Education Director-General Datuk Amin Senin said the ministry viewed anti-palm oil propaganda activities seriously and that the ministry will not compromise with any propaganda and indoctrination in private institutions that tarnish the image and name of the country.

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India and Bangladesh have already banned Peace TV, which has often been used by ISIS recruiters for indoctrination and brainwashing youth.

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It was the result of centuries-long antisemitic indoctrination and persecution of the Jews.

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A fierce debate has been taking place in Tunisia between conservative Islamists and human rights defenders after controversial local TV investigation revealed abuse and extremist indoctrination in a "Quranic" school in the rural town of Regueb.

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She examines the socialization and politicization of Vietnamese children and teenagers, contrasting the North's highly centralized agenda of indoctrination with the South, which had no such policy, and explores the results of these varied approaches.

Making Two Vietnams

A Pol Pot-type Cambodian abhorrence to Western education was somehow averted in the Maoist safe landing where remnants of their indoctrinated still refer to the 'bourgeois' education being discouraged by a leadership who had inculcated a people's (janabadi) education suitable for their indoctrination which, as now they are aware, left them severely handicapped educationally.

White Wash

Whether you're a parent or teacher, it's time to speak up to protect the nation's young from this indoctrination, and to challenge this diet of misinformation in relation to so-called "Relationships and Sex Education" before it is too late.

Stop indoctrination of our youngsters

But she says she aware and is seeing reports of the alleged forceful indoctrination of citizens into religious, traditional or societal activities being practiced by citizens mostly within the remote parts of the country.