144 Quotes About Indoctrination

Empathy is the sunlight to the vampire of culture.

The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.

But aliens? There are TV shows about them. There are books and movies and more. The media indoctrinates you to them until people are so desensitized they don't flinch at seeing aliens on TV or having their children buy plastic versions for a quarter.

I learned how to argue. They called it ‘Debate’. I learned how to worship. I learned how to become an eager worker and a passive consumer.But I didn’t learn anything practical, like how to purify water, build a home, start a fire, grow food, or survive without the help of corporations.

School is about learning to wait your turn, however long it takes to come, if ever. And how to submit with a show of enthusiasm to the judgment of strangers, even if they are wrong, even if your enthusiasm is phony.

I have said publicly (and repeatedly) that “bias” is not an issue, that every individual has a “bias” and professors have a right to express theirs in their classrooms so long as they do so in a professional manner, and in accordance with the principles of academic freedom.What faculty may not do is to impose their bias on students through coercive grading, or by failing to provide them with critical reading materials, or by presenting their personal prejudices as established wisdom.

A group of sentences joined together is like a mob: up to no good.

I became a new person; sucked into the neutrality of the abyss, comforted by social norms, and set free from the burden of individuality.

Some beliefs are so strongly held that some believers are ready to lose their heads rather than the belief they carry therein