Indoctrination Quotes
Indoctrination Quote of the day
Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination,' we might say - exercised through the mass media.
It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated.
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.'
Conditioning obstructs our view of reality. We do not see IT in its suchness because of our indoctrination, crooked and twisted.
For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination.
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 goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.
we have not yet developed a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination.
The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.
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.
My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.
A child can learn what is right as easy as what is wrong and whatever impressions are made on the mind when it is plastic will remain there.
I think if a story has a message it should be incidental and accidental, otherwise it leans too close to indoctrination.
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.
So mothers everywhere take heart. The indoctrination you administer now may have unanticipated positive effects years later.
Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.
Unlike most other world religions, Buddhism has never been too rigid in its structure.
If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future.
If you want to be drunk, become drunk with an idea. If you want pleasure, have pleasure from the pursuit of your passion. If you want to be indoctrinated, then be so by the natural law of humanism.
...the most important thing you must remember when dealing with a politically biased professor is to be friendly.
Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot therefore be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in errors.
Excellence doesn’t come by obeying doctrines. Excellence comes through recognizing the flaws in the prevailing doctrines of the society and throwing them away if necessary in the path of progress.
Break your shackles and reach out to your freedom. Break to pieces whatever indoctrination and programming that holds you hostage. The world is yours. Get possession of it.
The point of Political Correctness is not and has never been merely about any of the items that it imposes, but about the imposition itself. (The Rise of Political Correctness)
On close analysis, it would seem that there is a possibility that we are god's robots
Every word that comes after "And the Lord told me. . . “is a pious lie
Most people say that Shakespeare rocked merely because most people say that Shakespeare rocked.
Indoctrination is not just demeaning to the human conscience, it is lethal for the flourishing psychology of the hungry, young mind.
Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
Some beliefs are so strongly held that some believers are ready to lose their heads rather than the belief they carry therein
Many of the boys and men who are regarded as immature by some females are so deemed merely because they do not want to get married someday … or soon.
Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or pretending to be pained by that.
We may not yet know the right way to go, but we should at least stop going in the wrong direction.
When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is 'being offended'.
If you can convince people that freedom is injustice, they will then believe that slavery is freedom.
Brutality goes hand in hand with orthodoxy, be it Christian, Hindu, Muslim, Jewish, Atheistic or any other.