Government Education is an oxymoron. It is indoctrination. Lay still, little sheep, or The Wolf will get you. — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
“Seeking sacredness through scripture literalism is like sunbathing in the microwave, it only burns your skin, and cooks your brain.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“People don't believe in God because it's true, but because they were the victims of early childhood indoctrination.” — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“It takes a huge amount of culture to normalize "crazy", and of course that's its main focus” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
So mothers everywhere take heart. The indoctrination you administer now may have unanticipated positive effects years later. — Robert B. Laughlin Copy Share Image
“Despite a lifetime of social indoctrination, Marcus did not believe in aristocracy of any kind.” — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“Most people do not have a problem with you thinking for yourself, as long as your conclusions are the same as or… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
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,… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think… — 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
“If human beings weren’t ‘dumbable’ enough to be made soldiers, war would be nothing but an exchange of swear words between a… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught falsehoods in school. And the person that dares… — Plato Copy Share Image
The great irony is that people who live in remote areas, who are illiterate and don't own TVs, are in some ways… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“If you aren't destroying your enemies, it's because you have been conquered and assimilated, you do not even have an idea of… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“We are frequently being reminded that no criticism or teaching is ever completely politically "innocent." True, but should we accept the swing… — Louise M. Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
“Ritually abusive groups also convince children that something evil has been put inside them. For example, a child is made to believe… — Alison Miller 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
“Humanism is the purest expression of your soul as a human. It has no God to be concerned with, except for the… — Abhijit Naskar 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
“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
“We all know that any emotional bias -- irrespective of truth or falsity -- can be implanted by suggestion in the emotions… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“So in the twentieth century, there’s a major current of American thought―in fact, it’s probably the dominant current among people who think… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Someone said, and rightfully, that "property is theft'." There's no way a man can stand and tell me that he owns an… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that… — Peter Atkins Copy Share Image
“In fact, the nature of Western systems of indoctrination is typically not understood by dictators, they don’t understand the utility for propaganda… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Back in the 1920s, the major manual of the public relations industry actually was titled Propaganda (in those days, people were a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“A church service starts and ends with a prayer. A magazine starts and ends with an advert.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Freedom from indoctrination ought to be a basic human right for all children. — Bjorn Ulvaeus Copy Share Image
“Childhood indoctrination is the most effective way to change the society” — Thabiso Monkoe Copy Share Image
“When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is 'being offended'.” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“Any book, old or new, that claims to hold all the answers to life, is a scam.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Slavery is bad, but even worse is blind discipleship to hallucinations.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge. — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
“What is of the utmost importance is exposing children to critical thinking as opposed to mindless indoctrination.” — Dale McGowan Copy Share Image
we have not yet developed a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image