indoctrination
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A really good professor helps facilitate a world, not where you do an ideological indoctrination, but where you help students have to debate another side.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
One well-known study into Nazi-era education found that school-based indoctrination could have long-lasting effects, particularly when reinforced by the wider social environment.
From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026
Then came the “fantastic indoctrination into the West Coast scene,” Townshend says of hanging out with Jimi Hendrix and the Mamas and the Papas.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2025
Everyone has to agree, it's really been drummed into us — and I went to business school, I've been through this indoctrination process — that everyone works for the shareholder.
From Salon • Apr. 26, 2025
In the other we have ordinary men, training, indoctrination, honor, glory, reputation, shame, loyalty, code, and believe in a cause.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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