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Noam Chomsky: Education is Ignorance (1995)

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Re: Noam Chomsky: Education is Ignorance (1995)

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Post by thesethings »

Just a heads up: Most of this interview is not about education, it's about the history of the corporation, and the history of anti/pro capitalist philosophy.

As for the juicy quote in the title of the post, it's not that elaborated on. (Not because Chomsky is hand-waving, it seems it got muttered as an aside in an interview that was about other stuff.)

This was an interesting interview, but not very satiating for those of us hungry for some meaty critique of education.

(Not that I pour over those posts on HN every day ;D )

Re: Noam Chomsky: Education is Ignorance (1995)

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Post by lallysingh »

thesethings wrote: post #3

Just a heads up: Most of this interview is not about education, it's about the history of the corporation, and the history of anti/pro capitalist philosophy. As for the juicy quote in the title of the post, it's not that elaborated on. (Not because Chomsky is hand-waving, it seems it got muttered as an aside in an interview that was about other stuff.) This was an interesting interview, but not very satiating for tho…

Huh, the entire last Q-A pair are on Education...

There's a good amount down there.

Re: Noam Chomsky: Education is Ignorance (1995)

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Post by thesethings »

lallysingh wrote: post #4
thesethings wrote: post #3

Just a heads up: Most of this interview is not about education, it's about the history of the corporation, and the history of anti/pro capitalist philosophy. As for the juicy quote in the title of the post, it's not that elaborated on. (Not because Chomsky is hand-waving, it seems it got muttered as an aside in an interview that was about other stuff.) This was an interesting interview, but not very satiating for tho…

Huh, the entire last Q-A pair are on Education... There's a good amount down there.

I didn't mean to dismiss the interview, just lower expectations that the page was about explaining the point in the title, it's not.

You're totally right that last 3 paragraphs are about education, but even most of one of them he detours into "You'll find the same thing with the press...," and talks about the media.

I don't want to tell anybody not to read it, but I'll just say I got really excited about the title, but then a little bummed out the link didn't necessarily defend that point very well. I don't mean that as a dis of Chomsky, it was a casual interview, not a vigorous essay.

Re: Noam Chomsky: Education is Ignorance (1995)

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Post by Alex3917 »

dpapathanasiou wrote: post #2

CHOMSKY: First of all, I'm usually fuming inside, so what you see on the outside isn't necessarily what's inside. But as far as questions, the only thing I ever get irritated about is elite intellectuals, the stuff they do I do find irritating. Oh, the irony

I'm sure he has his own definition, it's just that the interviewer never bothered to ask for a point of clarification.

Re: Noam Chomsky: Education is Ignorance (1995)

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Post by ellyagg »

dpapathanasiou wrote: post #2

CHOMSKY: First of all, I'm usually fuming inside, so what you see on the outside isn't necessarily what's inside. But as far as questions, the only thing I ever get irritated about is elite intellectuals, the stuff they do I do find irritating. Oh, the irony

I don't trust a scientist who's "usually fuming inside". People who fume inside are people who are already pretty sure they're right about everything, which is not an appropriate disposition for a scholar.
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