Real schools ought to provide people with techniques of self-defense, but that would mean teaching the truth about the world and about… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter how much you learn in school; it's whether you learn how to go on and do things by yourself.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Independence of mind, enthusiasm, dedication to the field, and willingness to challenge and question and to explore new direction. There are plenty… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are major efforts being made to dismantle Social Security, the public schools, the post office - anything that benefits the population… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
My intellectual achievement was retarded when I went to high school. I sort of sank into a black hole because I had… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
After my first year of college, each course I took in every field was so boring that I didn't even go to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Israel uses sophisticated attack jets and naval vessels to bomb densely-crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks, mosques, and slums to attack a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Work can be undertaken to create an authentic independent political party, a real party, based on popular participation from the ground up,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's a strange myth of Anglo-Saxonism. When the University of Virginia was founded by Thomas Jefferson, for example, its law school offered… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There have been many measures taken to try to turn the educational system towards more control, more indoctrination, more vocational training, imposing… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Because they don't teach the truth about the world, schools have to rely on beating students over the head with propaganda about… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Far from creating independent thinkers, schools have always, throughout history, played an institutional role in a system of control and coercion. And… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's an interesting book about that called The Third Reich and the Ivory Tower, written by Stephen H. Norwood. It has a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I've never seen a study, but my sense is that these are people who feel really aggrieved. These people think, "I've done… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Student debt is structured to be a burden for life. The indebted cannot declare bankruptcy, unlike Donald Trump. Current student debt is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When I was in high school I asked myself at one point: "Why do I care if my high school's team wins… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For those of us who got into good colleges or the professions, did we stand up to that high school history teacher… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Put yourself in the position of a person, sort of an ordinary American, "I'm a hard-working, god-fearing Christian. I take care of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The whole intelectual culture has a filtering system, starts as a child in school. You're expected to accept certain beliefs, styles, behavioral… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The main purpose of advertising is to undermine markets. If you go to graduate school and you take a course in economics,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I happened to go to a school when I was a kid and that's all we did, pursue our own interests. It… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
It’s a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive state. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
There are questions as to whether it should even exist. Who should corporations be responsive to, the management of a corporation? Theoretically they are… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be - protect themselves. That's why you have state secret laws.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
The first thing you ought to do is verify what I present. Just because I say it doesn't make it true. So check it… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
There's an interesting book about that called The Third Reich and the Ivory Tower, written by Stephen H. Norwood. It has a long discussion… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
This is class war on an international scale, and power is in the hands of those who control the international economic system. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
There are big, extremely irrational parts of the society, and they have now been mobilized politically by the Republican establishment, hoping that these people… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
There's plenty to criticize about the mass media, but they are the source of regular information about a wide range of topics. You can't… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
The 50,000 Korean mercenaries we had in Vietnam were professional killers and just massacred people outright. And the American army did plenty of that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
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