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Quotes About Indoctrination

College mostly makes people like bladders— just good for nothing but t' hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.
~ George Eliot
If there is no word that means you don't have the concept. In North Korea they eliminate the words: depression, stress, dictatorship, human rights. You cannot think of those. That's why all the brainwashing was possible.
~ Park Yeon-mi
If children could grow up in innocence and safety, without the threat of sexual indoctrination and values-shaping dogma from secular public opinion in their classrooms.
~ Sally Clarkson
The way brainwashing works is subtle and takes a long time.
~ Sean Durkin
It was a non-Hermian joke that any child who showed signs of interest in art, philosophy, or abstract mathematics was plowed straight back into the hydroponic farms.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
And I reflect that people like him are still being born, people who can be indoctrinated with evil. Mankind is ostensibly striving to avert catastrophes; medical progress gives us hope that one day disease can be conquered, but will we ever be able to prevent the creation of mass murderers?
~ Simon Wiesenthal
Si un estudiante no se desmoronaba cuando tenía que matar a los suyos, no tendría escrúpulo moral para exterminar miles de Untermenschen. El estudiante que no lo resistía, era enviado al frente, donde sus superiores lo destinaban a un Himmetfahrtskommando, escuadrón suicida
~ Simon Wiesenthal
Once we understand that patriarchy is totally dependent upon our mistrusting and thwarting and hurting one another, and that for this reason we have been deliberately, thoroughly, and fiercely indoctrinated from birth to hate and to hurt women, surely we can forgive one another and learn to resist the most central and deadly of all patriarchal mandates.
~ Sonia Johnson
School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned.
~ John Taylor Gatto
The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders.
~ John Taylor Gatto
School is a perfect place to turn science into religion, but it's the wrong place to learn science, for sure.
~ John Taylor Gatto
Senin diplomanda bir "tarih öÄŸretmeni" olduÄŸun yaz?yor, oysa öÄŸrettiÄŸin ÅŸey propagandadan baÅŸka bir ÅŸey deÄŸil.
~ John Taylor Gatto
As escolas ensinam exatamente o que se pretende que ensinem, e fazem isso muito bem: como ser um bom egípcio e permanecer no seu lugar da pirâmide.
~ John Taylor Gatto
Em nossa sociedade secular, a escola se tornou o substituto da Igreja e, assim como na Igreja, é necessário que seus ensinamentos sejam aceitos com base na fé.
~ John Taylor Gatto
Look again at the seven lessons of school teaching: confusion, class position, indifference, emotional and intellectual dependency, conditional self-esteem, and surveillance. All of these lessons are prime training for permanent underclasses
~ John Taylor Gatto
I can't believe that centralized schooling is allowed to exist at all as a gigantic indoctrination and sorting machine, robbing people of their children.
~ John Taylor Gatto
In our secular society, school has become the replacement for church, and like church it requires that its teachings must be taken on faith.
~ John Taylor Gatto
The person who is easiest to brainwash is the person whose beliefs are based on slogans that have never been seriously challenged.
~ Elliot Aronson
I see the 'z' in 'Humanz' as referring to robots, AI, programming, brainwashing, indoctrination. And it's a question to us: are we human, or are we humanz? Have we lost the ability to think for ourselves? Do we just believe what we're told? That's how I see it.
~ Jamie Hewlett
You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.
~ George Orwell
Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumours circulated, photographs faked.
~ George Orwell
We shall squeeze you empty and then we shall fill you with ourselves.
~ George Orwell
a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting—three hundred million people all with the same face.
~ George Orwell
Who denounced you?" said Winston. "It was my little daughter," said Parsons with a sort of doleful pride. "She listened at the keyhole. Heard what I was saying, and nipped off to the patrols the very next day. Pretty smart for a nipper of seven, eh? I don't bear her any grudge for it. In fact I'm proud of her. It shows I brought her up in the right spirit, anyway.
~ George Orwell