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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. A
by thesethings 17y ago
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 )
- lallysingh 17y agoHuh, the entire last Q-A pair are on Education... There's a good amount down there.
- thesethings 17y agoI 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.