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
For Shipka, it was her true indoctrination into this wild world.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 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
Science replicates itself by indoctrination, since scientific communities work most efficiently when they are agreed about what they are trying to do.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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