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
The truth of the matter is that about 99 percent of teaching is making the students feel interestedin the material. Then the… — 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
“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
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
In the United States, one of the main topics of academic political science is the study of attitudes and policy and their… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Historical grammar is a study of how, say, modern English developed from Middle English, and how that developed from Early and Old… — 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
Every single one cabinet appointment: education, environment, labor - every single one is selected to undermine any aspect of government that's of… — 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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