{"id":40478,"date":"2022-08-16T14:41:31","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T04:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=40478"},"modified":"2022-08-16T14:41:31","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T04:41:31","slug":"noam-chomsky-on-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=40478","title":{"rendered":"Noam Chomsky on Education"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Most of the people who make it through the education system and get into the elite universities are able to do it because they’ve been willing to obey a lot of stupid orders for years and years – that’s the way I did it, for example… Some people go along with it because they figure, “Okay, I’ll do any stupid thing that asshole says because I want to get ahead”; others do it because they’ve just internalized the values – but after a while, those two things tend to get sort of blurred. But you do it, or else you’re out: you ask too many questions and you’re going to get in trouble. ~Noam Chomsky<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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(Book: Understanding Power https:\/\/amzn.to\/3dwz4rb<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Most of the people who make it through the education system and get into the elite universities are able to do it because they’ve been willing to obey a lot of stupid orders for years and years – that’s the way I did it, for example… Some people go along with it because they figure, … <\/p>\n

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