Chomsky Education Quotes

#1. After the snap, Chad took off like a gazelle and the quarterback hurled a 30-yard bomb that rocketed straight to him. Fast as Chad was, Joshua ran him down like a Discovery Channel cheetah. It was no contest.

C. Michael Forsyth

#2. She had called herself a whore. That was a man's word, a shame-word flung at a woman. But she did not seem ashamed. She wielded the word like a sword, slicing away all his preconceptions of who she was. She had earned her living by her sex, and she did not seem to regret it.

Robin Hobb

#3. I think women love a passionate love story.

E.L. James

#4. Education is not for profit. If you're not in education for profit, it's not going to be a fair critique for education.

Noam Chomsky

#5. Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?

Noam Chomsky

#6. There is a social responsibility to take care of vulnerable people. It seems that a sensible social responsibility is obligatory education, but also decent education, and that is not happening.

Noam Chomsky

#7. Education is really aimed at helping students
get to the point
where they can learn on their own ...

Noam Chomsky

#8. Education doesn't determine how you earn, education determines how you spend.

Noam Chomsky

#9. The notion of 'we' is very important. I think, for any family, any community to be able to say 'we' in this family, it means something. It's dangerous to society when somebody will place himself or herself on the outside of 'we.'

Jonas Gahr Store

#10. The truth of the matter is that about 99 percent of teaching is making the students feel interestedin the material. Then the other 1 percent has to do with your methods. And that's not just true of languages. It's true of every subject.

Noam Chomsky

#11. The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on
because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.

Noam Chomsky

#12. Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

Noam Chomsky

#13. If you're independent-minded in school, you're probably going to get in trouble very early on. That's not the trait that's being preferred or cultivated.

Noam Chomsky

#14. Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

Noam Chomsky

#15. The debt is being cynically exploited by the far right, with collusion of the Democrat establishment, to undermine what remains of social programs, public education, unions, and, in general, remaining barriers to corporate tyranny.

Noam Chomsky

#16. It makes sense for societies to make education compulsory for children. Children are vulnerable. They can't make decisions. But the decisions can't all be left in the hands of the parents. They can be irresponsible too.

Noam Chomsky

#17. The rascal multitude are the proper targets of the mass media and a public education system geared to obedience and training in needed skills, including the skill of repeating patriotic slogans on timely occasions.

Noam Chomsky

#18. After the economic 9/11, we will face a new world order.

Nick Clegg

#19. If you're teaching, say, physics, there's no point in persuading a student that you're right. You want to encourage them to find out what the truth is, which is probably that you're wrong.

Noam Chomsky

#20. Education is imposed ignorance.

Noam Chomsky

#21. The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

Noam Chomsky

#22. The thing that is most important is to feel like you're at the front of the line, to be prime or primer. I definitely never wanted to say that in the films, but that's where it comes from.

Shane Carruth

#23. I just want real creative freedom without worrying about, you know, car payments.

Sean Penn

#24. The country that consistently ranks among the highest in educational achievement is Finland. A rich country, but education is free. Germany, education is free. France, education is free.

Noam Chomsky

#25. You groan and shake your head, Sixsmith, I know, but you smile too, which is why I love you.

David Mitchell

#26. The greatest gift you can give another person is strength.

Caroline Myss

#27. Real education is about getting people involved in thinking for themselves- and that's a tricky business to know how to do well, but clearly it requires that whatever it is you're looking at has to somehow catch people's interest and make them want to think, and make them want to pursue and explore.

Noam Chomsky

#28. Bodies can catch feelings as easily as catch fire: affect leaps from one body to another, evoking tenderness, inciting shame, igniting rage, exciting fear-in short, communicable affect can inflame nerves and muscles in a conflagration of every conceivable kind of passion

Melissa Gregg

#29. Mexico is a pretty poor country, but they are maintaining a free, high quality public education system, not for everyone of course but pretty substantial.

Noam Chomsky