{"id":19314,"date":"2013-12-13T10:06:12","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T17:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=19314"},"modified":"2013-12-13T10:06:12","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T17:06:12","slug":"americas-education-system-robs-students-of-their-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=19314","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s Education System Robs Students of their Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"295\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0027IXxLj-0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Noam Chomsky: Modern universities designed to \u2018deprive you of your freedom\u2019<\/strong><br \/>\nBy Scott Kaufman &#8211; 29 November, 2013 &#8211; The Raw Story<\/p>\n<p>The World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) released an interview with Noam Chomsky recently in which the noted linguist discussed, among other things, how high student tuition indoctrinates students into corporate culture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no economic basis for high tuitions,\u201d Chomsky said. \u201cOne of the very negative aspects of this sharp tuition rise is that it entraps students. It deprives them of their freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chomsky explained that \u201cif you\u2019re going to come out of college with $50,000 of debt, you\u2019re stuck. You couldn\u2019t do the things you wanted to do, like maybe you wanted to become a public interest lawyer, helping poor people. You can\u2019t do it \u2014 you have to go to a corporate law firm, pay off your debt. Then you get trapped in that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn fact,\u201d he continued, \u201cone of the main effects of the sharp increase in tuition is just indoctrination and control.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When WISE asked him about the role of technology in the classroom, he said \u201cwatching something online is nothing like being a classroom. The Internet is like other technology: it can be used to liberate, to learn, to study [or] it can be used to divert people to meaningless activities, to indoctrinate them, to overwhelm them with propaganda, commercial or political.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2013\/11\/29\/chomsky-modern-universities-designed-to-deprive-you-of-your-freedom\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;source<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D19314&amp;text=America%27s+Education+System+Robs+Students+of+their+Freedom&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noam Chomsky: Modern universities designed to \u2018deprive you of your freedom\u2019 By Scott Kaufman &#8211; 29 November, 2013 &#8211; The Raw Story The World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) released an interview with Noam Chomsky recently in which the noted linguist discussed, among other things, how high student tuition indoctrinates students into corporate culture. \u201cThere\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=19314#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[4197],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19314"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19315,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19314\/revisions\/19315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}