Indoctrination Quotes
Albert Einstein, attributed to Einstein in a book by Lincoln Barnett (Journalist, Author) in which Albert wrote the book Forward. Often modernized as “Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”
See Lenin for a similar view from a communist perspective.
Ataturk as part of his radical reforms elevated secular teachers to a very high social status and moved science and engineering into the curriculum over the objections of traditionalists and Islamic fundamentalists, and he did this in an overwhelmingly Muslim country.
This song and this musical was a profound attack on the essence of racial segregation at a time when discrimination was legal and practiced throughout the country and almost universally in the South. Southern politicians castigated the song, the show, and especially Hammerstein who they called a Communist for promoting such radical views. Ironically, South Pacific became one of the most frequently produced High School Shows by 1979 and remained so into the 21st century including in the South.
The Illuminati was a secret society. At the time, anyone who differed with the Church on issues of philosophy, ethics or religion could be tortured and burned at the stake, and anyone who criticized the Monarchy could be tortured and hung or beheaded. The result was the concept of a secret society of which the Illuminati was one.
This was said by one of the characters in this. It is not certain that Dickens believed it himself. But it represents the views of many people who are concerned about indoctrination in schools.
