...I am afraid that education is conceived more in terms of indoctrination by most school officials than in terms of enlightenment. My… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
About God, I cannot accept any concept based on the authority of the Church... As long as I can remember. I have… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I didn't become a Christian until many years later, when I moved to the South Side of Chicago after college. It happened… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
What does seem to me poisonous, what breeds a type of patriotism that is pernicious if it lasts but not likely to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We are all a combination of what we are born with as well as what we are raised to be. Our natural… — Devdutt Pattanaik Copy Share Image
I had always been scrupulously careful to avoid the smallest suggestion of infant indoctrination, which I think is ultimately responsible for much… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
One classical role of the pulpit in Protestantism has been to 'preach sermons' which imply indoctrination more than education. Within this from… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
Through systematic terror, through indoctrination, through systematic manipulation of stimulus, reward, and punishment, we can today break man and convert him into… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
“The trick is not to be isolated―if you're isolated, like Winston Smith in 1984, then sooner or later you're going to break,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“That’s the problem with indoctrination—the whole point of the First Order’s kind of education is to stop someone from thinking and instead… — Delilah S. Dawson Copy Share Image
“If you think of your own mother to be the only true mother in the world and thereby start belittling people from… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Isn't it a remarkable coincidence almost everyone has the same religion as their parents ? And it always just happens to be… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
My idea of philosophy is that if it is not relevant to human problems, if it does not tell us how we… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Society, and the family as its psycho social agent, has to solve a difficult problem: How to break a person's will without… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Perhaps my children will one day pledge their loyalty to the Republican Party. Or perhaps they'll dismiss my liberalism as mild pap,… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
“Slavery is bad, but even worse is blind discipleship to hallucinations.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Some beliefs are so strongly held that some believers are ready to lose their heads rather than the belief they carry therein” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“mass indoctrination of uneducated young men with such ideas is in itself a lethal danger to society and to international order.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Schooling is a manufacturing process whereby the raw material called curious boys is turned into products called obedient men.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“We’re offered opportunities to,” he gave a slight chuckle, “integrate. Refusal is recorded as hostility.” — Kay Dick Copy Share Image
The indoctrination is so deep that educated people think they’re being objective. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Be skeptic, be doubtful, be rebellious towards every single dogma of the society. Only then there will be hope of progress for… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
we have not yet developed a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
When the state intervenes to insure the indoctrination of some doctrine, it does so because there is no conclusive evidence in favor… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“If you want to be drunk, become drunk with an idea. If you want pleasure, have pleasure from the pursuit of your… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
No human heart is denied empathy. No religion can demolish that by indoctrination. No culture, no nation and nationalism - nothing can… — Dayananda Saraswati Copy Share Image
“It's very important for institutions of concentrated power to keep people alone and isolated: that way they're ineffective, they can't defend themselves… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“But aliens? There are TV shows about them. There are books and movies and more. The media indoctrinates you to them until… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
The problem is not that public schools do not work well, but rather that they do. The first goal and primary function… — Wendy McElroy Copy Share Image
The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination,' we might… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
If you are religious at all, it is overwhelmingly probable that your religion is that of your parents. If you were born… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We have the power to defy the selfish genes of our birth and, if necessary, the selfish memes of our indoctrination. We… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The nature of psychological compulsion is such that those who act under constraint remain under the impression that they are acting on… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
If you should prefer to understand that children are those human beings who have not yet found the grasp of their own… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
