I pretend no originality in observing that mass education was motivated in part by the perceived need to "educate them to keep… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In studying language we can discover many basic properties of this cognitive structure, its organization, and also the genetic predispositions that provide… — 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
Right now, we happen to be in a general period of regression, not just in education. A lot of what's happening is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As elite attitudes towards public education over time illustrate, simple formulas are far from adequate. There are conflicting tendencies. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Those who wish to change the world should have the best possible understanding of the world, including what is revealed by the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Well, in fact if you look at the Trump voters, you take a look at their attitudes it's not all that different.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
California is maybe the richest place in the world. They're destroying the best public education system in the world. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Our whole educational and cultural system is not designed to provide those intellectual tools, so people are often lost and the internet… — 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
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
A 1998 study was done in Hebrew by an Israeli scholar, Yosef Grodzinsky, and the English translation of the title is Good… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The focus on creativity and independence exists in pockets of resistance in the educational system, which, to thrive, should be integrated with… — 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
“Most problems of teaching are not problems of growth but helping cultivate growth. As far as I know, and this is only… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The rascal multitude are the proper targets of the mass media and a public education system geared to obedience and training in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The country that consistently ranks among the highest in educational achievement is Finland. A rich country, but education is free. Germany, education… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For one thing, studying language is by itself a part of a study of human intelligence that is, perhaps, the central aspect… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What the polls don't tell you is, though other polls do, is that if you do a study of CEOs, top executives… — 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
“In his book Politics, which is the foundation of the study of political systems, and very interesting, Aristotle talked mainly about Athens.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The educational system in the US was a highly predictable victim of the neoliberal reaction, guided by the maxim of "private affluence… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If kids are studying for a test, they're not going to learn anything. We all know that from our own experience. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Education is not for profit. If you're not in education for profit, it's not going to be a fair critique for education. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Organization and education, when they interact with each other, they strengthen each other, they are mutually supportive. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A good education instills in you the intuitive comprehension - it becomes unconscious and reflexive - that you just don't think certain… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There have, for years, been comparative studies of religious fanaticism and factors that correlate with it. By and large, it tends to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I just went along with political activists and interested in other intellectual interests which I pursued kind of at random. I never… — 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
There happen to be a lot of people around who spent an hour on the Internet and think they know a lot… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is an astonishing fact about the current era that in the most powerful country in world history, with a high level… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The idea that you have to drop any thing that you might be interested in doing because you have to pass that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Education is really aimed at helping students get to the point where they can learn on their own. . . — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In other countries, rich and poor, education remains substantially free, with educational standards that rank high in global comparisons. Even in the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One of the questions asked in that study was, How many Vietnamese casualties would you estimate that there were during the Vietnam… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Well, that's pretty much what the schools are like, I think: they reward discipline and obedience, and they punish independence of mind.… — 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
Syntax is the study of the principles and processes by which sentences are constructed in particular languages. Syntactic investigation of a given… — 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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