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indoctrinate verb beat into, beat into the head, brainwash, brainwash with propaganda, convert, convince, drill into, drum into, get into the head of, imbue, implant, impregnate, impress upon the mind, inculcate, infect, infix, influence, infuse, ingrain, instill, persuade, pound into head, program, subvert, train, urge, win over Associated concepts: indoctrinating jurors See also: convince, discipline, educate, imbue, inculcate, initiate, instill, instruct, persuade, prevail, teach How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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91) In contrast to Gomez's husband, who testified under duress, conversos who took the initiative to become inquisitorial stool pigeons sometimes portrayed "Judaizers" in exile as fanatical, unidimensional indoctrinators, constantly spewing theological "error" and threatening to coerce other New Christians into adopting a corrupt "faith. The sad fact is that the remedies for the restoration of educational norms are too often denied or thwarted by ambitious social engineers, indoctrinators, reformers who view education as a social science and envision the aims of teaching and learning, as Gordon Keith Chalmers memorably noted in his classic The Republic and the Person (1952), as opportunities not for promoting ethical and moral principles, but for translating them into programs of social expediency. Emotional manipulation works with unique effectiveness for religious indoctrinators because they so often disclose the truth--sometimes even the whole truth--for questionable motives. |
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