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re-ˈeducate, v.
[re- 5 a.]
trans. To educate again. Now often spec. with the object of changing political beliefs or social behaviour.
1808M. T. Kemble Day after Wedding 7 Then you must re-educate her. 1836Sir W. Hamilton Discuss. (1852) 322 These tutors, educated in the older system, were unable or unwilling to re-educate themselves for teachers of the new. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VI. 899 Gymnastics are also of advantage in re-educating the nerve centres. 1947Hansard Commons 15 Dec. 1434 The work of the Kulturbund zur demokratischen Erneuerung Deutschlands in re-educating the German people in the spirit of democracy and international understanding. 1955Treatment of Brit. P.O.W.'s in Korea (H.M.S.O.) 4 ‘Re-educating’ the prisoners. The Chinese technique of ‘re-education’ embraced every phase of daily life in the prison camps. 1967Listener 18 May 653/1 The aim..is to re-educate the prisoner rather than to punish him. 1975Chinese Econ. Stud. VIII. iv. 3 Chairman Mao teaches us that ‘it is necessary for educated youths to go to the countryside to be reeducated by the poor and lower-middle peasants’. 1976New Yorker 26 Jan. 110/2 The Chinese considered him sufficiently important to be spared and ‘reëducated’, or brainwashed. 1976W. H. Canaway Willow-Pattern War vi. 64 Agricultural communes which specialized in re-educating professors and other intellectuals as labourers.
So re-eduˈcation (also attrib.).
1888Voice (N.Y.) 2 Feb., A..Theological Seminary for their re-education. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VII. 578 The re-education of the sense of hearing. 1906Trans. Assoc. Amer. Physicians XXI. 724 Re-education is undoubtedly one of the most important factors in producing lasting cures. 1944J. S. Huxley On Living in Revolution 151 This gang has succeeded in imposing its ideas on a considerable minority of the German people, and..this constitutes a grave problem of re-education. 1945‘G. Orwell’ Animal Farm iii. 26 He formed..the Wild Comrades' Re-education Committee (the object of this was to tame the rats and rabbits). 1945Times 8 May 7/5 It is becoming clear that the ‘re-education’ of Germany by the allies will not be a pious aspiration, but an unavoidable duty. 1951Koestler Age of Longing ix. 337 You don't like revolutionary vigilance,..and discipline, and re-education camps. 1974N. Freeling Dressing of Diamond 133 A year of physiotherapy..in a re-education centre. 1976Scott & Koski Walk-In (1977) xiii. 79, I am once again politically unreliable. I once again face re-education. 1977Time 9 May 22/1 Also targetted for resettlement are most of the 30,000 political prisoners the regime admits are still interned in ‘re-education’ camps. |