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Throughout their childhood, these docile people are further conditioned by sleep-teaching and endless upbeat propaganda not unlike modern ad campaigns.
My Own Private Orwell: Why the high priest of dystopia still matters 2003
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The teaching technique, to be sure, was called hypnopaedia, an ancient word from still - more ancient Greek roots which when translated literally mean-t "sleep-teaching."
Cities In Flight Blish, James 1957
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"The principle of sleep-teaching, or hypnopædia, had been discovered."
Brave New World Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 1932
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