The educational system is pretty much geared to passing the next exam. You're educated to pass tests and not to understand. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
State propaganda, when supported by the educated classes and when no deviation is permitted from it, can have a big effect. It… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If something comes along that you don't like, there are a few sort of four-letter words that you can use to push… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
How many educated Americans can even remember the names of the assassinated Jesuit intellectuals of El Salvador, or would know where to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
English is a second language in most of the educated sectors of Europe and much of the world. But maybe in the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You don't have any other society where the educated classes are so effectively indoctrinated and controlled by a subtle propaganda system -… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't bother writing about Fox News. It is too easy. What I talk about are the liberal intellectuals, the ones who… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The indoctrination is so deep that educated people think they’re being objective. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What happened in the following years? Well, I think that among the educated classes it stayed the same. You talk about humanitarian… — 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
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 Image
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky — 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 long discussion… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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 Image
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