indoctrination

«indoctrination» in Mova's school dictionary: teaching someone to accept ideas or beliefs without… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (indoctrination; no plural)

meaning for a pupil

1) Indoctrination is teaching someone to accept ideas or beliefs without questioning them or thinking for themselves. tree →

2) (formal) Training people to believe one side only, often by a group or government. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in history, news and talk about education and safety. It tells the reader that people were made to believe something in an unfair, one-sided way. Phrases: «political indoctrination», «a form of indoctrination».

examples

• The book describes the indoctrination of children in a strict regime. tree →
• Good teaching encourages questions, not indoctrination. tree →
• Some groups use indoctrination to control their members. tree →
• She escaped long indoctrination and learned to think freely. tree →
• Propaganda is a tool of indoctrination. tree →
• The film warns about online indoctrination. tree →

note

Uncountable. Verb: indoctrinate. Negative word: it is not the same as «teaching» or «education». Learning to ask questions protects you from it.

In the corpora

• "Re-education" means forced political indoctrination: people are made to repeat and accept the government's ideas, often in camps.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «indoctrination» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.