Hypnopaedia

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Teaching (or learning) by subconscious means. uncountable

    "'In the end,' said Mustapha Mond, 'the Controllers realized that force was no good. The slower but infinitely surer methods of ectogenesis, Neo-Pavlovian conditioning and hypnopædia…'"

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sleep learningsleep teachingsleep-learningsleep-teaching

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"'In the end,' said Mustapha Mond, 'the Controllers realized that force was no good. The slower but infinitely surer methods of ectogenesis, Neo-Pavlovian conditioning and hypnopædia…'"

Etymology

From hypno- (“sleep”) + Ancient Greek παιδεία (paideía, “education”), popularized in the novel Brave New World (1932).

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