re-educate
Change someone's beliefs
Re-educate means to teach someone again, typically to change their beliefs, habits, or way of thinking.
The word often carries sinister overtones—authoritarian regimes re-educate dissidents through indoctrination or forced labor camps.
In neutral contexts, it simply means retraining: Physical therapy helped re-educate her muscles after the injury.
Also spelled reeducate.
Coercively alter beliefs
- propagandaBiased information for influence
- deprogramUndo psychological conditioning
- inculcateImplant by persistent urging
- indoctrinationSystematic uncritical belief instillation
radicalize · conformity · manipulate · coerce · thought reform · reeducation camp · political prisoner · dissident
Convey knowledge or orders
- tutorIndividual instruction provider
- coachOne who instructs
- mentorTrusted wisdom-giving advisor
- teachImpart skills or knowledge
enlighten · inform · curriculum · lesson · training · guidance · schooling · pedagogy
Return to good condition
- reintegrateReturn to unified state
- resocializeTeach new social norms
- correctiveDesigned to remedy flaws
- therapyCurative mental treatment
recovery · reorientation · remedial · reclamation · reform · intervention · counseling · behavioral
Teach new job skills
- reskillLearn new job abilities
- upskillDevelop additional work capabilities
- workforce developmentBuilding employable skills
- career changeMoving to different occupation
professional development · certification · vocational · apprenticeship · job training · skills gap · requalify · bootcamp
brainwash
Coercively alter beliefs
- propagandaBiased information for influence
- deprogramUndo psychological conditioning
- inculcateImplant by persistent urging
indoctrination · radicalize · conformity · manipulate · coerce · thought reform · reeducation camp · political prisoner · dissident · internment
instruct
Convey knowledge or orders
teach · enlighten · inform · curriculum · lesson · training · guidance · schooling · pedagogy · facilitate
rehabilitate
Return to good condition
- reintegrateReturn to unified state
- resocializeTeach new social norms
- correctiveDesigned to remedy flaws
therapy · recovery · reorientation · remedial · reclamation · reform · intervention · counseling · behavioral · recidivism
retrain
Teach new job skills
- reskillLearn new job abilities
- upskillDevelop additional work capabilities
- workforce developmentBuilding employable skills
career change · professional development · certification · vocational · apprenticeship · job training · skills gap · requalify · bootcamp · credential
re-educatedeprogram
Undo psychological conditioning
liberate · free · unbrainwash · emancipate · unshackle
education, educate, educated, educator, educational, uneducated, educating, educates, educe