Indoctrination vs. Education Simplified

Indoctrination  means teaching someone to accept a set of beliefs without questioning them. Your sister's orientation at her new job might seem more like indoctrination if she comes home robotically reciting her corporate employee handbook.

Indoctrination often refers to religious ideas, when you're talking about a religious environment that doesn't let you question or criticize those beliefs. 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.

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indoctrination

1

nteaching someone to accept doctrines uncritically

Types:

brainwashing

forcible indoctrination into a new set of attitudes and beliefs

inculcation, ingraining, instilling

teaching or impressing upon the mind by frequent instruction or repetition

Type of:

instruction, pedagogy, teaching

ed·u·ca·tion

ˌejəˈkāSH(ə)n/

noun

1. 1.

   the process of receiving or giving systematic instruction, especially at a school or university.

   "a new system of public education"

   synonyms:

   teaching, schooling, tuition, tutoring, instruction, coaching, training, tutelage, guidance; More
2. 2.

   an enlightening experience.

   "a day with those kids was an education in patience and forbearance"

the profession of a teacher