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indoctrinate |
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indoctrinate someone into something to teach someone the ways of a group or some activity. The staff sought to indoctrinate Walter into the ways of office procedure. Todd indoctrinated Ken into camp life. indoctrinate someone with something to teach someone the official or fundamental knowledge about something. They indoctrinated all their spies with the importance of being loyal to the death. Ken indoctrinated Todd with revolutionary thinking. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Similar indoctrinations under the Taliban and al-Qaeda may have resembled what Christian anarchist Jacques Ellul labeled as indoctrination by saturation and "Blitzkrieg"--so globally pervasive have terrorist centers and cells become. Gram suggests that, because they didn't burn what they put in "our minds," the former slaves were and the descendants of slaves are still subject to the indoctrinations and psychic injuries of slavery. Indoctrination moves toward education only as it is combined with openness to criticism and to rival indoctrinations, views, conjecture, theories, and doctrines. |
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