Why Does Indoctrination Mean?

Indoctrination means teaching someone to accept a set of beliefs without questioning them. ... The Latin word for "teach," doctrina is the root of indoctrinate, and originally that's just what it meant. By the 1830s it came to mean the act of forcing ideas and opinions on someone who isn't allowed to question them.

What is the meaning of Doctrinated?

/ɪnˈdɑːk.trə.neɪt/ to often repeat an idea or belief to someone in order to persuade them to accept it: Some parents were critical of attempts to indoctrinate children in green ideology. They have been indoctrinated by television to believe that violence is normal.

What is an example of indoctrination?

To teach with a biased, one-sided or uncritical ideology. The definition of indoctrinate is to teach a particular viewpoint. An example of indoctrinate is to teach your children your religious beliefs. ... Children who had been indoctrinated against their parents' values.

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