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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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Avila's departure for London in 1674 (59) deprived the New Jews of Peyrehorade of the lone Jewish indoctrinator who had visited their town on a regular basis until that time (fol. The sad fact is that the remedies for the restoration of educational norms are too often denied or thwarted by ambitious social engineers, indoctrinators, reformers who view education as a social science and envision the aims of teaching and learning, as Gordon Keith Chalmers memorably noted in his classic The Republic and the Person (1952), as opportunities not for promoting ethical and moral principles, but for translating them into programs of social expediency. Emotional manipulation works with unique effectiveness for religious indoctrinators because they so often disclose the truth--sometimes even the whole truth--for questionable motives. |
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