disapproval If you think that someone is being given too much help with something and is not making enough effort themselves, you can say they are being spoon-fed. Students are unwilling to really work. They want to be spoon-fed
If you spoon-feed a small child or a sick person, you feed them using a spoon. It took two years for me to get better, during which time he spoon-fed me and did absolutely everything around the house
disapproval If you say that someone is spoon-fed ideas or information, you mean that they are told about them and are expected to accept them without questioning them. They were less willing to be spoon-fed doctrines from Japan