indoctrinates
Programs with ideology
Indoctrinates means to teach someone to accept a set of beliefs uncritically, especially political or religious ones.
The word carries negative connotations—it suggests training people what to think rather than how to think: The regime indoctrinates children through state-controlled media.
Unlike educate or instruct, indoctrinate implies the suppression of independent judgment.
Power to affect others
- swayRock back and forth
- convertChange in form or faith
- convinceCause to believe
- propagandizeSpread biased information systematically
inculcate · instill · seduce · entice · charm · recruit · enlist · assimilate
Biased information for influence
- conditioningLearned behavioral adaptation
- reeducationCoerced ideological transformation
- radicalizeConvert to extreme ideology
- groomingSelf-care for appearance
programming · gaslighting · coerce · subjugate · manipulate · deceive · mislead · disinformation
Unchallengeable official beliefs
- creedStatement of belief
- ideologyStructured belief framework
- orthodoxyAdherence to accepted beliefs
- tenetHeld principle or doctrine
fundamentalism · sectarianism · propaganda · canon · precept · worldview · political · religious
influence
Power to affect others
propagandize · inculcate · instill · seduce · entice · charm · recruit · enlist · assimilate · proselytize
propaganda
Biased information for influence
- conditioningLearned behavioral adaptation
- reeducationCoerced ideological transformation
- radicalizeConvert to extreme ideology
grooming · programming · gaslighting · coerce · subjugate · manipulate · deceive · mislead · disinformation · subversion
dogma
Unchallengeable official beliefs
tenet · fundamentalism · sectarianism · propaganda · canon · precept · worldview · political · religious · extremism
educate
Provide formal instruction
drill · lecture · mentor · tutor · coach · guide · disciple · pupil · curriculum · syllabus
indoctrinatesliberates
Sets free from captivity
frees · emancipates · enlightens · deprograms · unshackles
indoctrinatesdeprograms
Undoes psychological conditioning
disabuses · disillusions · broadens · unteaches · disenchants
- political indoctrinationImposed ideological belief training
- cult indoctrinationCoercive belief implantation
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