N.Chomsky on Education

Op zondag 13 maart 2011 zal Noam Chomsky voor het eerst sinds jaren een grote publieke lezing houden in Nederland. In de Westerkerk te Amsterdam zal hij, zoals we dat van hem gewend zijn, spreken over de huidige ontwikkelingen in de wereld. Hierbij zal hij zijn zorgen uitspreken over de tendensen die hij ziet, in de wereld, in de Verenigde Staten, maar ook in Europa en Nederland. De titel van zijn lezing luidt "Contours of Global Order: Domination, Instability, and Xenophobia in a Changing World". De lezing zal in het Engels zijn. Achteraf zal er een versie online komen met Nederlandse ondertiteling.

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[spiritofsquatters]

Yes this part is from Leiden. The other parts we would upload in the future.

[kshaq22]

I'm gonna cry when Noam Chomsky dies, seriously.

[dontchastop]

The institutions responsible for the indoctrination of the young failed.

[vince33x]

@GiveMeClarity I hope he's right about Privatizing education.

[vince33x]

@VirtuosicElevator College tuitions started going up as a result of Federal loan monies becoming more and more available. The two sectors where we've had the greatest inflation: 1) education; 2) healthcare. Interestingly they are the two sectors where government has been most involved. Does Chomsky think we should get the State out of education?

[GiveMeClarity]

That fucking guy needs to stop sniffling.

[Slave2PaperWithInkOn]

@matchbox555 Reminds me of my dad way back when we first got a video camera - when it wasn't pointed at him you would still hear him in the background clearing his throat - just so he was in there somewhere!

[matchbox555]

FOR CUNTS SAKE BLOW YOUR FUCKING NOSE YOU CUNT !

[Profitnation]

@VirtuosicElevator Yes it's not a good situation at all. Though what exactly is political freedom? It's an oxymoron; it either only exists in daydreams or as a ratio balancing law and action in a way that can uniformly be agreed to be "just". Though I find it difficult to consider the latter without it quickly dissolving into the same fluffy essence of the former. I would think one's ability to express oneself is the axiom of freedom & something we ought to consider.

[VirtuosicElevator]

@Profitnation This is precisely correct. It all starts with this premise: you think you are free? You have to have a special government license to drive a taxi, you have to have a government license to cut hair. To freaking cut hair, among others....Yep we need more government intervention says the ill informed american. Bahhh bahhh sheep.

[Profitnation]

@VirtuosicElevator Not to mention the whole "inflation of degrees" theory you provide is extremely lacking. You don't even take into account the industry. If in 1990 there were 60 graduates, for example, heading into an industry with 20 jobs, and if in 2000 there were 300 grads heading into a job market of 800+ then there would be a "deflation" of degrees in that instance. There is far too much to consider for such a rudimentary, all-encompassing theory as such to explain it.

[Profitnation]

@VirtuosicElevator Ever since the 60s student protest has been a gigantic problem for policy makers to overcome. If the "fed gov will help a lot of people go to college" they would do so by lowering tuition prices (which is, if you look at war expenditure, well within their means), not by raising the prices. This system is progressing toward manufacturing a wealthy educated elite, and quelling student activists is definitely an agenda.

[VirtuosicElevator]

One part here is just wrong and sounds like a complete conspiracy theory. The part where he says students going into debt is so they can't become an activist. This is complete bull. The reason the college prices go up is because the fed gov will help a lot of people go to college. Meaning too many people will be able to go. The more people that go to college, the less the degree is worth. It like the inflation of degrees.