All 3 Uses of
indoctrination
in
Unbroken, by Hillenbrand
- Finally, through intense indoctrination, beatings, and desensitization, its army cultivated and celebrated extreme brutality in its soldiers.†
p. 43.5 *
- In Japan's militaristic society, all citizens, from earliest childhood, were relentlessly indoctrinated with the lesson that to be captured in war was intolerably shameful.†
p. 195.2indoctrinated = taught beliefs in a manner that gets them accepted without critical question
- Some guards, intoxicated by absolute power and indoctrinated in racism and disgust for POWs, fell easily into sadism.†
p. 195.7
Definition:
the teaching of beliefs in a manner that gets them accepted without critical question