Top 96 Quotes About Indoctrination
#1. We have not yet developed a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination.
Doris Lessing
#2. Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.
Thomas Sowell
#3. So mothers everywhere take heart. The indoctrination you administer now may have unanticipated positive effects years later.
Robert B. Laughlin
#4. Conditioning obstructs our view of reality. We do not see IT in its suchness because of our indoctrination, crooked and twisted.
Bruce Lee
#5. Despite a lifetime of social indoctrination, Marcus did not believe in aristocracy of any kind.
Lisa Kleypas
#6. 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.
Frank Zappa
#7. 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.'
Jonathan Kozol
#8. Our second Christian school was a real school, not a bunker for indoctrination.
Carlene Bauer
#9. 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.
Hazel Henderson
#10. Religious training and indoctrination creates internal states that are in conflict with natural urges and drives.
Darrel Ray
#11. 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.
Glenn Beck
#12. I also happened to sincerely believe in my father's message, though "believe" is perhaps the wrong word. Rather, I had not yet begun to question my indoctrination.
Frank Schaeffer
#13. Remember my friend, uncontrolled alcohol, uncontrolled casual sex and mindless indoctrination are not signs of progress, they are signs of drowning into the abyss of mental and physical degradation.
Abhijit Naskar
#14. It is no longer higher education, it is higher 'indoctrination '
Dennis Prager
#15. 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.
Bertrand Russell
#16. A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.
David Horowitz
#17. So-called Individualism is the social and economic laissez-faire: the exploitation of the masses by the classes by means of legal trickery, spiritual debasement and systematic indoctrination of the servile spirit, which process is known as 'education'.
Emma Goldman
#18. Epicurus as a moral empiricist felt that our immediate feelings are far more cogent and authoritative guides to the good life than abstract maxims, verbal indoctrination, or even the voice of reason itself. Hence he based his ethics on nature, not on convention or on reason.
Epicurus
#19. In a home school, the kid does 95% of the work. But in a school system, since it's an indoctrination system, a teacher has to do 95% of the work.
John Taylor Gatto
#20. I understand why Barack Obama wants to send every kid to college, because of their indoctrination mills, absolutely ... The indoctrination that is going on at the university level is a harm to our country.
Rick Santorum
#21. The indoctrination is so deep that educated people think they're being objective.
Noam Chomsky
#22. No human heart is denied empathy. No religion can demolish that by indoctrination. No culture, no nation and nationalism - nothing can touch it because it is empathy.
Dayananda Saraswati
#23. 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.
Wendy McElroy
#24. 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.
Noam Chomsky
#25. Decades of destruction, suppression, genocide, sterilization, and political indoctrination could not break the Tibetans' will for freedom, or their deep-rooted religious beliefs. On
Heinrich Harrer
#26. The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
Joseph Campbell
#27. Mass indoctrination of uneducated young men with such ideas is in itself a lethal danger to society and to international order.
Christopher Hitchens
#28. They burn books now, mama.The monsters burn fucking books now, mama. They have eyes full of disappointing madness. Their tongues taste like fulvous indoctrination. They teach us. Teach us sadism, hatred, lust to kill, conformity. What do you see when you look at me? Daddy?
Laura Gentile
#29. I have always been dismayed by the West's failure - or unwillingness - to recognize that establishing secular schools that offer children a balanced and nonextremist form of education is probably the cheapest and most effective way of combating this kind of indoctrination.
Greg Mortenson
#30. Busy people begrudge the days being short.
I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
Stanley Kubrick
#31. What are our schools for if not indoctrination against Communism?
Richard M. Nixon
#32. I think if a story has a message it should be incidental and accidental, otherwise it leans too close to indoctrination.
Karen Lord
#33. Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
Dick Gregory
#35. It's a class war, and a war on young people too ... that's why tuition is rising so rapidly. There's no real economic reason for that. It's a technique of control and indoctrination. And this is really the first organized, significant reaction to it, which is important.
Noam Chomsky
#36. Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.
James Baldwin
#37. Freedom from indoctrination ought to be a basic human right for all children.
Bjorn Ulvaeus
#38. Don't they feed you at Navarre house?"
"They throw out some gruel between the indoctrination sessions and propaganda films. Then we're off marching around the grounds and the recitation of sonnets to Celina's loveliness.
Chloe Neill
#39. The Fanatics have dirtied its fiber, and their mottos have reated a thick layer of mold over its wounds, one of total intolerance, feeding on the indoctrination of the youth cliques.
Rami Ollaik
#40. Worst music ever sells millions. The worst music with the shittiest lyrics. The fact is that they pay radio stations to put it on the radio, then you've heard it a million times when you're driving from your shitty job to your shitty house. It's indoctrination, it's sad.
Sia Furler
#41. School is about learning to wait your turn, however long it takes to come, if ever. And how to submit with a show of enthusiasm to the judgment of strangers, even if they are wrong, even if your enthusiasm is phony.
John Taylor Gatto
#42. 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.
Abhijit Naskar
#43. But aliens? There are TV shows about them. There are books and movies and more. The media indoctrinates you to them until people are so desensitized they don't flinch at seeing aliens on TV or having their children buy plastic versions for a quarter.
Thomm Quackenbush
#44. Brutality goes hand in hand with orthodoxy, be it Christian, Hindu, Muslim, Jewish, Atheistic or any other.
Abhijit Naskar
#45. Beware of what you teach your children in the womb.
Marty Rubin
#46. 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)
Angelo Codevilla
#47. Political scientists and professors are the new clergy; the clergy of oppression.
A.E. Samaan
#48. One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
Aldous Huxley
#49. The boys learn the Quran by heart, rocking back and forth as they recite. They learn that there is no such thing as science or literature, that dinosaurs never existed and man never went to the moon.
Malala Yousafzai
#50. After a victim is made to participate in an act of evil, the people in charge put a lot of energy into convincing the child or adult that he or she is evil and a perpetrator rather than a victim.p324
Alison Miller
#51. Nationalism is pimped-out bigotry, designed to provoke a Stockholm Syndrome in the livestock.
Stefan Molyneux
#52. Fear mankind most when he fights with a consuming passion for what he perceives to be true." ~ Demo Cratia.
Farah Evers
#53. Schooling is a manufacturing process whereby the raw material called curious boys is turned into products called obedient men.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#54. Government is a gang, but not merely as meritorious as a private gang because it claims legal legitimacy. It pillages and uses violence but under the cover of law, and seeks legitimacy not through competition but through the myth of the social contract.
Jeffrey Tucker
#56. Most people say that Shakespeare rocked merely because most people say that Shakespeare rocked.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#57. You can feed a skeptic the party line but you can't make him swallow it.
Marty Rubin
#58. It takes a huge amount of culture to normalize "crazy", and of course that's its main focus
Stefan Molyneux
#59. 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.
Robert Owen
#60. Give a typical employee a million, and, he is most likely to use the money to print his CV on fancier paper.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#61. The sad truth about humanity ... is that people believe what they're told. Maybe not the first time, but by the hundredth time, the craziest of ideas just becomes a given.
Neal Shusterman
#62. Unlike most other world religions, Buddhism has never been too rigid in its structure.
Abhijit Naskar
#63. A church service starts and ends with a prayer. A magazine starts and ends with an advert.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#64. If human beings weren't 'dumbable' enough to be made soldiers, war would be nothing but an exchange of swear words between a handful of individuals.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#65. Information is controlled because the free flow of truth is not always expedient for those wishing to maintain control.
Bryant McGill
#66. Educate your children, educate yourself, in the love for the freedom of others, for only in this way will your own freedom not be a gratuitous gift from fate. You will be aware of its worth and will have the courage to defend it.
Joaquim Nabuco
#67. The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.
Jeffrey Tucker
#68. School programs the schooled to type a CV. Life inspires the unschooled to type a business plan.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#69. 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.
Joseph Devlin
#70. I became a new person; sucked into the neutrality of the abyss, comforted by social norms, and set free from the burden of individuality.
Joss Sheldon
#71. 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.
Abhijit Naskar
#74. We are born free, but are taught to obey orders.
Marty Rubin
#75. Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think?
Peter Hitchens
#76. It's been said that only the educated are free, but I contend. Only those who are educated with TRUTH can be inherently free. Otherwise, you are simply indoctrinated with error.
J.E.B. Spredemann
#77. A 'normal person' is what is left after society has squeezed out all unconventional opinions and aspirations out of a human being.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#78. There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#79. Give your typical employee a profitable corporation, and, he is mostly likely to sell it to buy a fancier suit for his next job interview.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#80. Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
G.K. Chesterton
#81. ...the most important thing you must remember when dealing with a politically biased professor is to be friendly.
Lee Doren
#82. A person who says "every person has a right to a decent education" may not actually mean "people should be robbed to support bad schools" or "all children should be forced into a prison-like building for 12 years.
Jeffrey Tucker
#83. 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.
Maria Montessori
#84. Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
Richard Dawkins
#85. I learned how to argue. They called it 'Debate'. I learned how to worship. I learned how to become an eager worker and a passive consumer.
But I didn't learn anything practical, like how to purify water, build a home, start a fire, grow food, or survive without the help of corporations.
Joss Sheldon
#87. Humanism is the purest expression of your soul as a human. It has no God to be concerned with, except for the living Gods, that is the humans. It has no doctrine to abide by, except for the natural doctrine of love and benevolence. That's the religion we need my friend.
Abhijit Naskar
#88. It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated.
Herbert M. Shelton
#90. 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.
George Carlin
#92. Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught falsehoods in school. And the person that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool
Plato
#93. Be skeptic, be doubtful, be rebellious towards every single dogma of the society. Only then there will be hope of progress for humanity.
Abhijit Naskar
#94. Comrade, your statement is factually incorrect."
"Yes, it is. But it is politically correct."
(The Rise of Political Correctness)
Angelo Codevilla
#95. If you can convince people that freedom is injustice, they will then believe that slavery is freedom.
Stefan Molyneux
#96. Life was never meant to be difficult, we just make it that way so that it fits into societies and our indoctrinated concept of what things should be like.
Steven Redhead
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