indoctrinating
Instilling fixed beliefs
Indoctrinating is teaching someone to accept a set of beliefs uncritically.
The word implies systematic instruction that discourages questioning: The regime was accused of indoctrinating children through state-controlled education.
Unlike educating, indoctrinating suggests the goal is adherence rather than understanding—programming rather than informing.
Coercive psychological manipulation
- manipulationUnderhanded control of others
- conditioningLearned behavioral adaptation
- coercionPressured compliance through threats
- mind controlDirecting another's thoughts
groupthink · persuasion · influence · susceptibility · critical thinking · deprogramming · isolation · repetition
Shift toward extreme ideology
- recruitmentSeeking new personnel
- extremismIdeology beyond accepted norms
- nationalismDevotion to one's country
- totalitarianismState controls everything absolutely
authoritarianism · reeducation · propaganda · youth movements · rallies · loyalty · patriotism · civic education
Educational program's content plan
- trainingDeveloping abilities through practice
- orientationPosition relative to surroundings
- socializationInternalizing cultural norms
- militaryArmed forces collectively
boot camp · hazing · boarding school · academy · initiation · conditioning · compliance · conformity
Act of changing states
- proselytizingSeeking converts zealously
- seminaryClergy training college
- madrasaMuslim religious school
- Sunday schoolReligious education for children
religious education · baptism · confirmation · initiation · discipleship · evangelizing · missionary · fundamentalism
brainwashing
Coercive psychological manipulation
- manipulationUnderhanded control of others
- conditioningLearned behavioral adaptation
- coercionPressured compliance through threats
mind control · groupthink · persuasion · influence · susceptibility · critical thinking · deprogramming · isolation · repetition · reinforcement
radicalization
Shift toward extreme ideology
- recruitmentSeeking new personnel
- extremismIdeology beyond accepted norms
- nationalismDevotion to one's country
totalitarianism · authoritarianism · reeducation · propaganda · youth movements · rallies · loyalty · patriotism · civic education · state media
curriculum
Educational program's content plan
- trainingDeveloping abilities through practice
- orientationPosition relative to surroundings
- socializationInternalizing cultural norms
military · boot camp · hazing · boarding school · academy · initiation · conditioning · compliance · conformity · drilling
conversion
Act of changing states
- proselytizingSeeking converts zealously
- seminaryClergy training college
- madrasaMuslim religious school
Sunday school · religious education · baptism · confirmation · initiation · discipleship · evangelizing · missionary · fundamentalism · sectarian
- teachingteaching, lesson plans, instructing, educating, courses
- evangelismgospel outreach, evangelize, evangelist, born again, evangelizing
indoctrinatingeducating
Teaching or training someone
Socratic questioning · enlightening · mentoring · guiding · instructing
indoctrinatingdeprogramming
Reversing coercive belief implantation
liberating · enlightening · deradicalizing · emancipating · unshackling
- political indoctrinationImposed ideological belief training
- cult indoctrinationCoercive belief implantation