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  • The problem is not that public schools do not work well, but rather that they do. The first goal and primary function of schools is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which we normally label state indoctrination.

    School   People   Goal  
    Wendy McElroy (1982). “Demystifying the State”
  • There have been many measures taken to try to turn the educational system towards more control, more indoctrination, more vocational training, imposing a debt, which traps students and young people into a life of conformity... That's the exact opposite of [what] traditionally comes out of The Enlightenment. And there's a constant struggle between those. In the colleges, in the schools, do you train for passing tests, or do you train for creative inquiry?

  • It is no longer higher education, it is higher 'indoctrination '

  • we have not yet developed a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination.

  • I suspected economics was irredeemable as a policy tool for citizens groups. I saw economics lead its practitioners and citizens alike into a form of brain-damaging indoctrination.

    Brain   Groups   Citizens  
    Hazel Henderson (1997). “Building a Win-Win World: Life Beyond Global Economic Warfare”, p.144, Berrett-Koehler Publishers
  • ...I am afraid that education is conceived more in terms of indoctrination by most school officials than in terms of enlightenment. My own belief is that education must be subversive if it is to be meaningful. By this I mean that it must challenge all the things we take for granted, examine all accepted assumptions, tamper with every sacred cow, and instill a desire to question and doubt. Without this the mere instruction to memorise data is empty. The attempt to enforce conventional mediocrity on the young is criminal.

  • The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which we call - in enemy nations - 'state indoctrination.'

    School   People   Goal  
    Jonathan Kozol (1990). “The Night Is Dark and I Am Far from Home”, Touchstone Books
  • Society, and the family as its psycho social agent, has to solve a difficult problem: How to break a person's will without his being aware of it? Yet by a complicated process of indoctrination, rewards, punishments, and fitting ideology, it solves this task by and large so well that most people believe they are following their own will and are unaware that their will itself is conditioned and manipulated.

    Erich Fromm (2013). “To Have Or To Be?”, p.67, A&C Black
  • There are a lot of universities that are as dangerous with the indoctrination of the children as terrorists are in Iran or North Korea. We have been setting up reeducation camps. We call them universities.

    Children   Iran   Korea  
    "Locative Praxis and Artivism". Interview with Mél Hogan, melhogan.com. December 17, 2013.
  • I had always been scrupulously careful to avoid the smallest suggestion of infant indoctrination, which I think is ultimately responsible for much of the evil in the world. Others, less close to her, showed no such scruples, which upset me, as I very much wanted her, as I want all children, to make up her own mind freely when she became old enough to do so. I would encourage her to think, without telling her what to think.

    Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain”, p.241, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • I didn't become a Christian until many years later, when I moved to the South Side of Chicago after college. It happened not because of indoctrination or a sudden revelation, but because I spent month after month working with church folks who simply wanted to help neighbors who were down on their luck no matter what they looked like, or where they came from, or who they prayed to. It was on those streets, in those neighborhoods, that I first heard God's spirit beckon me. It was there that I felt called to a higher purpose - His purpose.

    President Obama's Address To The National Prayer Breakfast, www.foxnews.com. February 5, 2009.
  • A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants: demagogues can persecute writers and tell them what to write as much as they like, but they cannot vanish what has been written in the past, though they try often enough...People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.

    Book   Writing   Thinking  
  • Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.

  • North Korea invites parody. We laugh at the excesses of the propaganda and the gullibility of the people. But consider that their indoctrination began in infancy, during the fourteen-hour days spent in factory day-care centers; that for the subsequent fifty years, every song, film, newspaper article, and billboard was designed to deify Kim Il-sung; that the country was hermetically sealed to keep out anything that might cast doubt on Kim Il-sung's divinity. Who could possibly resist?

    Country   Song   Korea  
    Barbara Demick (2010). “Nothing To Envy: Real Lives In North Korea”, p.42, Granta
  • Isn't it a remarkable coincidence almost everyone has the same religion as their parents ? And it always just happens to be the right religion. Religions run in families. If we'd been brought up in ancient Greece we would all be worshiping Zeus and Apollo. If we had been born Vikings we would be worshiping Wotan and Thor. How does this come about ? Through childhood indoctrination.

  • I think if a story has a message it should be incidental and accidental, otherwise it leans too close to indoctrination.

    Interview with Brad R. Torgersen, bradrtorgersen.wordpress.com. August 6, 2012.
  • A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.

  • As a German philosopher writing in the aftermath of the Nazi regime, Marcuse understood the sleep inducing force of indoctrination, its power to make people forget and forfeit their own real interests. "The fact that the vast majority of the population accepts, and is made to accept, this society does not render it less irrational and less reprehensible," he wrote. "The distinction between true and false consciousness, real and immediate interest still is meaningful."

    Daniel Pinchbeck (2007). “2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl”, p.67, Penguin
  • People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.

    Thinking   People   Mind  
  • "The people" is that massive portion of a society that lives by its pathetic subjection to sheer immediacy or self-obviousness, and that therefore uncritically seizes upon the most simplistic and abstract ways of filling its vacuous self-consciousness. Not philosophy but dogma and rhetoric, not rationality but indoctrination and conditioning, provide the cultural junkfood by which the Many perfunctorily slake their thirst and hunger.

  • Decades of indoctrination, manipulation, censorship and KGB excursions haven't altered this fact: People want a piece of their own little Something-or-Other, and, if they don't get it, have a tendency to initiate counterrevolution.

    Kgb   People   Want  
  • Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.

    Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.300, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Conditioning obstructs our view of reality. We do not see IT in its suchness because of our indoctrination, crooked and twisted.

    Reality   Views   Twisted  
    Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.19, Tuttle Publishing
  • [T]his is another reason why the children of illegals are sought for public schools: They'll put up with it. The children of illegals will put up with these dilapidated schools because for them, it is a huge step up. And these schools become little indoctrination centers for the children of illegal immigrants, as they are brainwashed and programmed to become Democrats as adults.

  • In the end we beat them with Levi's 501 jeans. Seventy-two years of communist indoctrination and propaganda was drowned out by a three-ounce Sony Walkman. A huge totalitarian system...has been brought to its knees because nobody wants to wear Bulgarian shoes. Now they're lunch, and we're number one on the planet.

    Years   Jeans   Shoes  
    "Thrown Under the Omnibus". Book by PJ O'Rourke, October 21, 2015.
  • When the state intervenes to insure the indoctrination of some doctrine, it does so because there is no conclusive evidence in favor of that doctrine.

  • The great irony is that people who live in remote areas, who are illiterate and don't own TVs, are in some ways more free because they are beyond the reach of indoctrination by the modern mass media.

    Media   People   Way  
    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • The indoctrination is so deep that educated people think they’re being objective.

    "On Fake News and Other Societal Woes". Interview with Irene, chomsky.info. December 7, 2005.
  • Without cultural indoctrination, all of us would be atheists. Or, more specifically, while many may dream up their own gods as did our ancestors, they would certainly not be ‘Christian’ or ‘Jewish’ or ‘Muslim’ or any other established religion. That’s because, without the texts and churches and familial instruction, there are no independent evidences that any specific religion is true. Outside of the Bible, how would one hear of Jesus? The same goes for every established religion.

    FaceBook post by David G. McAfee from Dec 25, 2013
  • Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.

    Dick Gregory (1972). “No More Lies: The Myth and the Reality of American History”, HarperCollins Publishers
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