Noam Chomsky on the Role of the Educational System

March 1989 http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww....

Watch the full lecture: http://thefilmarchived.blogspot.com/2010/08/noam-chomsky-on-manufacturing-con...

Noam Chomsky is an Institute Professor and professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. http://freegovreports.com/index.php/education

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.

Closing of the American Mind was published in 1987, five years after Bloom published an essay in The National Review about the failure of universities to serve the needs of students. With the encouragement of Saul Bellow, his colleague at the University of Chicago, he expanded his thoughts into a book "about a life, I've led" that critically reflected on the current state of higher education in American universities. His friends and admirers imagined the work would be a modest success, as did Bloom, who recognized his publishers modest advance to complete the project as a lack of sales confidence. Yet on the momentum of strong initial reviews, including one by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt in the New York Times and an op-ed piece by syndicated conservative commentator George Will entitled "A How-To Book for the Independent" it became an unexpected best seller, eventually selling close to half a million copies in hardback and remaining at number one on the New York Times Non-fiction Best Seller list for four months.

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[freddiefernandez]

Looking back, and being a former teacher, I find that public education is simply government mandated babysitting system.

[gsixtysix]

@MikhailSilverwood

Agreed I have learned more off of the internet that is useful as well as innovative than I did in school

beware of anything that is "mandatory"

The educational is a massive waste in talent, money and time. The power brokers talk of change which usually means more discipline, confinement, conformity as time spent at school...the real change should be freedom and allow people to develop critical thinking...it's the last thing the godfathers of this world want

[zhouystr]

12 people are from harvard

[Thunderwolf666]

@66ott7 What you need to always bear in mind though is that it's a film. A fictional account, not a sociological study. Not saying it's a bad film, just saying to take it with a pinch of salt.

[aminevich]

12 people were told to vote thumbs down...do it! Push the thumbs down button you automaton!

[happyhazelnut]

So nice to listen to the voice of reason.

[SUpersaiyajinjerkbag]

@nomis101uk

I don'y know. We have all thought "not even a coal miner would put up with this" or even "this is so ghetto every other society seems classy". I don't know whether to disagree with chomsky or say 2 out of three aint bad or this would be true anyway. What say you?

[jumpyourbone]

@nomis101uk

perhaps you're just lucky that this wasn't your experience; it was thoroughly mine!