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reeducation

n. 1 the act of educating again or anew so as to rehabilitate or adapt to new situations. 2 (context euphemistic English) involuntary political indoctrination.

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Reeducation

Re-education may refer to:

  • A euphemism for brainwashing, efforts aimed at instilling certain beliefs in people against their will
  • Reeducation camp, the name given to the prison camps operated by the government of Vietnam following the end of the Vietnam War
  • Re-education through labor, the name given to a system of administrative detentions in the People's Republic of China
  • Reeducation camps (Kyohwaso in Korean), the name given to prison labor camps in North Korea
  • Rehabilitation (penology)
  • Physical therapy
  • Adult education, education for adults
  • " Re-Education (Through Labor)", a single by punk rock band Rise Against from their 2008 album Appeal to Reason

Usage examples of "reeducation".

Republic, which otherwise would have detained you within a government reeducation center for the rest of your lives.

Prefects breaking down the door and spiriting them away to a government reeducation camp.

Her motherwhose face was scarred from a beating at a reeducation camplowered her head and began to cry.

I presume he told you there was nothing he could do for you in the matter of General Kishikawa who, apart from being a major war criminal guilty of sins against humanity, is also the only high-ranking officer of the Japanese Imperial Army to survive the rigors of reeducation camp, and is therefore a figure of value to us from the point of view of prestige and propaganda.

When I became myself again, I was in a reeducation camp, under constant surveillance and unable to use the portal through which so many of my brother officers had escaped the indignity of surrender and the humiliations of.

She is a lapsed science-fiction fan, and her husband is seeing to her reeducation now that the kids are grown and gone.

And the scavenger was just an old bum, maybe even a survivor of the reeducation camps.

There were over a dozen likely targets in the sector, from reeducation camps to the Maidstone depot.

I might even take a leave of absence from here just for the purpose of overseeing the reeducation of Dr.

Hoa had spent six years in a reeducation camp in Vietnam and had led three escape attempts.

Some of our members had come from very poor, undereducated backgrounds, and we were not properly trained in social reeducation.

In the case of the Fleet, Anne had conĀ­sidered revising the curriculum at Chelan Academy, plus instiĀ­tuting mandatory reeducation of the commissioned officers.