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
When I was a college student and I got interested in linguistics the concern among students was, this is a lot of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I suspect most likely that more Nazis came to America. I was a student at Harvard during the early 1950s. There was… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get… — 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
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
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
In some ways, [the student anti-sweatshop movement] is like the anti-apartheid movement, except that in this case its striking at the core… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As soon as one identifies, challenges and overcomes illegitimate power, he or she is an anarchist. Most people are anarchists. What they… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Students typically are at a period of their lives when they're more free than at any other time. They're out of parental… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the 1960s, various parts of the population became energized and began to enter the public arena to call for the rights… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The 1980's was the first time in the history of imperialism that people from the imperial society went in substantial numbers to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Individuals in a university - students, faculty, staff - can choose to become politically engaged, and a free university should foster a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It's a trap for the rest… — 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
As any good teacher knows, the methods of instruction and the range of material covered are matters of small importance as compared… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The leading student of business propaganda, Australian social scientist Alex Carey, argues persuasively that “the 20th century has been characterized by three… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the universities, cheap, vulnerable labor means adjuncts and graduate students. — 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
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
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
In Mexico, a poor country, higher education is of quite good quality -- and is free. Ten years ago the government tried… — 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