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@ 2010-03-23 13:42:00

Noam Chomsky on the Role of the Educational System

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	dooora 2010-03-23 15:55 (saite)
	there are teachers who do stimulate thought, and sometimes they get away with it :) (Atbildēt uz šo)

	makes sense, kind of garamgajejs 2010-03-23 17:09 (saite)
	"I have a feeling that when you go to elite universities you find more obedience and conformity". e.g. "The aim is to nail the myth that there is an “Oxford type”. There isn’t and the university is working hard to diversify its intake, which is still mainly middle-class (90%), with just over half educated in the state sector." (Atbildēt uz šo)

snauts
2010-03-24 00:35 (saite)

So take the universities, which in many respects are not very different from the media in the way they function though they're a much more complex system, so they're harder to study systematically. Universities do not generate nearly enough funds to support themselves from tuition money alone: they're parasitic institutions that need to be supported from the outside, and that means they're dependent on wealthy alumni, on corporations, and on the government, which are groups with the same basic interests. Well, as long as the universities serve those interests, they'll be funded. If they ever stop serving those interests, they'll start to get in trouble.
So for example, in the late 1960s it began to appear that the universities were not adequately performing that service students were asking questions, they were thinking independently, they were rejecting a lot of the Establishment value system, challenging all sorts of things and the corporations began to react to that, they began to react in a number of ways. For one thing, they began to develop alternative programs, like IBM began to set up kind of a vocational training program to produce engineers on their own: if MIT wasn't going to do it for them the way they wanted, they'd do it themselves and that would have meant they'd stop funding MIT. Well, of course things never really got out of hand in the Sixties, so the moves in that direction were very limited. But those are the kinds of pressures there are.

-- Noam Chomsky

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