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indoctrination

[in-dok-truh-ney-shuhn] / ɪnˌdɒk trəˈneɪ ʃən /
NOUN
propagandism
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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

But the judges ruled RE was not taught in "an objective, critical, and pluralistic manner," and that could amount to "indoctrination".

From BBC • Jan. 28, 2026

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

The discomfort may not necessarily seek to compel indoctrination, but it does erase the existence of lives, truths, and histories some would rather forget or disappear.

From Slate • Apr. 23, 2025

Though tribal indoctrination was still the focus of our curriculum in Standard Four, a few new and challenging subjects were introduced.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane




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