Noam Chomsky on Democracy and Education in the 21st Century and Beyond - 38 views
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So a lot of public education was, in fact, concerned with trying to teach independent people to become workers in an industrial system.
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we have to train them in obedience and servility, so they're not going to think through the way the world works and come after our throats.
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One can at least be suspicious that skyrocketing student debt is a device of indoctrination
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It's not just you learned how a mosquito flies in the rain, but you learn how to be creative and why it's exciting to learn things and create things and make up new things. And that can be done from kindergarten on
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First of all, the existence of the advertising industry is a sign of the unwillingness to let markets function. If you had markets, you wouldn't have advertising. Like, if somebody has something to sell, they say what it is and you buy it if you want. But when you have oligopolies, they want to stop price wars
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It doesn't matter how much you learn in school; it's whether you learn how to go on and do things by yourself