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Quotes About Indoctrination

education will be replaced with indoctrination.
~ Unknown
Years of charismatic psychological indoctrination suppressed awareness. Later on, seeking professional help was not an option.
~ Unknown
A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.
~ David Horowitz
I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let the wheel spin them around as it wants without taking a look at what they're doing. I'm concerned that students not become passive acceptors of the official doctrine that's handed down to them from the White House, the media, textbooks, teachers and preachers.
~ Howard Zinn
I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let the wheel spin them around as it wants without taking a look at what they're doing. I'm concerned that students not become passive acceptors of the official doctrine that's handed down to them from the White House, the media, textbooks, teachers and preachers.
~ Howard Zinn
The average Pakistani student is brought up on a mix of dogma and mythology that does not encourage respect for facts or empiricism.
~ Husain Haqqani
La palabra "elección" es un fraude mientras la gente elija sólo lo que le han enseñado a elegir.
~ Idries Shah
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.
~ Jerry Falwell, Jr.
Human beings never think for themselves; they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told - and become upset if they are exposed to any different view.
~ Michael Crichton
Despite a lifetime of social indoctrination, Marcus did not believe in aristocracy of any kind.
~ Lisa Kleypas
People hate being told what to do or what to believe, although they think this way in part because they have been told to do so.
~ Unknown
Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
~ Vladimir Lenin
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
~ Vladimir Lenin
As a man is taught, so he believes. Thoughts being things, they may be planted like seeds in the mind of the child and completely dominate his mental content. Given the favourable soil of the will to believe, whether the seed-thoughts be sound or unsound, whether they be of pure superstition or of realizable truth, they take root and flourish, and make the man what he is mentally.
~ Unknown
A lie told often enough becomes the truth. —Vladimir Lenin
~ Debra Webb
The public is indoctrinated to believe that skills are valuable and reliable only if they are the result of formal schooling.
~ Ivan Illich
process of "automatic osmosis" — the seeping of predigested thoughts along the Party line into all subordinate minds, disciplined to accept. The members become ideological sleepwalkers, drugged into complete obedience by an unconscious discipline.
~ J. Edgar Hoover
The conformist is not born. He is made. I believe the brainwashing process begins in the schools and colleges.
~ J. Paul Getty
The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their common sense.
~ Dale Ahlquist
What is of the utmost importance is exposing children to critical thinking as opposed to mindless indoctrination.
~ Unknown
Just remember, education (providing leadership for your kids as they learn life skills) is different from indoctrination (pouring ideas into their heads without inviting critical examination).
~ Unknown
evangelism of children nonetheless seeks to cut off the process of independent thought before it begins. It's this aspect of religious indoctrination that is most unacceptable—the idea that doubt is bad, that unquestioning acceptance is good, that there is only one possible right answer, and that someone else has already figured out what that answer is.
~ Unknown
Children's understanding of morality is the same whether they're of one religion, another religion or no religion. But if it's simply indoctrination, it's worse than doing nothing. It interferes with moral development." —Larry Nucci, director, Office for Studies in Moral Development, University of Illinois
~ Unknown
Nobody is more indoctrinated than the indoctrinator.
~ Dan Brown