Noam Chomsky is an Institute Professor and professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The goal of education, Chomsky argues, is to produce free human beings whose values are not accumulation and domination, but rather free association on terms of equality….
December 9th, 2009 at 1:18 am
John Taylor gatto goes into depth on similar findings experienced as an educator in NY. He’s is worth a YouTube gander as is Jacque fresco (concerning social design)
Ty for uploading this
December 9th, 2009 at 1:18 am
am i the only Belgian guy, without any degree of whatsoever, who is watching this brilliant man ?
December 9th, 2009 at 1:18 am
exactly, think of it this way. If there was a society made of idiots and someone who is smart comes in that smart person is considered stupid by the rest of society.
December 9th, 2009 at 1:18 am
Thats why I’ve always be wary of things like Penguin Classics and similar imprints. Okay its been selected as a literary classic by someone or some group somewhere and it could very well be that they’re right – but how do I know how to judge it?
December 9th, 2009 at 1:18 am
where great attention is given to efficiency and character reports, and attendance at cultural assemblies is mandatory, where it is avowed that all will be administered to each according to his needs and performance required from each according to his abilities, and where those who flee are tracked down, returned, and punished for trying to escape – in short in the milieu of the typical large American secondary school – we attempt to teach ‘the democratic system’?”
December 9th, 2009 at 1:18 am
I cannot post all in 500 words so I’m posting twice, but this is worth reading. As Royce W. Van Norman once said: Is it not ironical that in a planned society of controlled workers given compulsory assignments, where religious expression is suppressed, the press controlled, and all media of communication censored, where a puppet government is encouraged but denied any real authority, ….
December 9th, 2009 at 1:18 am
i have a friend who’s a phd candidate in philosophy – he told me that nowhere in any of the schools that he’s attended has the idea ever been raised that philosophy might actually have practical relevance to the real world. so apparently, that’s how.
December 9th, 2009 at 1:18 am
“People are filtered out for their obedience” those that refuse are called “behavioral problems”
December 9th, 2009 at 1:18 am
The fact that we have both liberals and conservatives discussing this and using the same talking points should be more than adequate evidence to the political middle that something is very, very wrong. As for Plato, Shakespeare, et al, when in the world do public school kids study any of these? Shakespeare maybe… and inadequately. None of the others. By the time they go over them in college it’s too late for most of us.
December 9th, 2009 at 1:18 am
What year is this from?
December 9th, 2009 at 1:18 am
Thank God for Noam Chomsky! He mentioned the Trilateral Commission. Mention that to any everyday Joe Blow & they’ll think its something to do with your local council! I found out about him 10 years too late!
December 9th, 2009 at 1:18 am
I’d love to see Chomsky arguing with Allan Bloom
December 9th, 2009 at 1:18 am
this guy is off the charts WONDERFUL
December 9th, 2009 at 1:18 am
Independent thought* silly typo
December 9th, 2009 at 1:18 am
I think you missed his point. He provided Bloom’s views as evidence for the socially accepted function of education — that is, subservience.
It doesn’t matter what you study, comprehension requires one to do more than repeat the thoughts of others. Comprehension requires independent though. Our schools propagate the contrary. Their goal as institutions is complete subordination.
We lose in this manner many eager minds to the educational institution and not to the cause of education.
December 9th, 2009 at 1:18 am
He missed Allan Blooms point completely. How do you become an “automaton” by studying Plato, Shakespeare, Rousseau, Nietzche, and Machiavelli?
December 9th, 2009 at 1:18 am
This is the most honest rational explanation of what it’s about. Public Schools should have a disclaimer stating these very facts. I witnessed kids in my classes that failed varied subjects and still progressed to the next grade, so clearing it has little to do with intelligence!
Peaxe