Noam Chomsky: Education Rediscovered

An interview with Professor Noam Chomsky as part of the Education Rediscovered series on the future of education. Check out our website www.educationrediscovered.com/
Interviewed by University of Toronto Student, Kourosh Houshmand-- Founder of Education Rediscovered and Recipient of Canada's Top 20 Under 20 Award.
Filmed and Edited by Aidan Cheeatow and Daniel Orellana
Music by Aidan Cheeatow

[@missdiablica666]

About the ranking of kids: I remember as a top student in the class I once wrote a paper for another pupil who asked me, because he had real problems and I didn't mind. He got a average grade for it although I don't think it was much worse than anything I've ever written and I always got top grades. It was just impossible for kids who were thought to be "dumb" to get top grades from at least some of the teachers. We laughed about it then but we knew how unfair it was.

[@robertpirsig5011]

100% there is a reputation bias. Obviously you have to get the reputation in the first place but still does show you that many straight A student's may not have been the consistent performers their grades made out.

[@navneetyadav3941]

Thank you!!

[@victorprice7431]

I love a true Professor! And Mr Chumscky is a great Professor !

[@tukity]

Chomsky really opened up here. I'm going to remember this fun anecdote for a long time-- Chomsky copied his homework in third grade.

[@fielsjd]

"We want to start an organic movement. We don't know what we're gonna do..." Best of luck with that.

[@arcas17]

Brilliant comments about the way neoliberalism is promoted as a psychological pathology at 11:00, and especially in the anecdote about the sociologist at 13:36. I recently wrote a long comment somewhat related to this point on another Chomsky video, and I'm extremely pleased to see it has been addressed.

[@David-kg5nn]

Thank you for this, I look forward to seeing what Kourosh and Education Rediscovered have in store for us. I will help as I can :)

[@ElKadySami]

Thank you! Great document...

[@nyb_ok]

Wonderful Interview. Shared it.

[@infiniteinfiniteinfi]

Thanks for sharing this interview. I have very consciously tried to learn things on my own since a young age, and this clip has contributed to my self-eduction about learning =)

[@4zengrl]

Noam never stops being relevant.

[@tarnopol]

Very well done, and your org sounds like a great idea! Sent this video around a bit, too.

[@TOR1Hershman]

When I did well in school it was, usually, because that's what I wanted - if I didn't enjoy it...I ignored it, I knew (sooner or later) "It" or I would cease to be. . Gad, I hated school so So SO SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much!!!

[@mailee8564]

I LOVE THIS VIDEO!!!!!

[@Aaron-wy9nb]

Alright chill out

[@LucaStanga-ww4pm]

Grades are not everything but kids now literally sue the school if they get a bad grade (talking from Italy). Plus we filled the classrooms with immigrants that don't speak a word of the language, people with disabilities to be inclusive and bullies that disrupt every single lesson. So I ask myself, what about the smart kids? Don't they have the right to at least try to achieve something instead of being forced to stay in an environment that is not conducive to any learning? Besides, having interests is fine and all but people must also learn to focus even when they are bored. I often see shop assistants nowadays that treat you with contempt. I think the professional standard has dropped too low, what's gonna happen next, actors getting their lines wrong cause they were bored that day and they wanted to pursue their other interests? Work is work and you gotta do what you gotta do. Interests are for leasure time only IMAO.

[@richardfinlayson1524]

People don't seem to notice the implications of economic rationalism, we all lose.

[@MrBjs007]

"If you're say the CEO of a corporation it is far more significant for you to gain a bigger bonus in the next quarter, than to have your grandchildren survive." What total bullshit.

[@MrBjs007]

Because they don't. It's a false premise. The world is not going to light itself on fire, even if everyone does not hand all of their money over to the Democratic party. Anyway, Chomsky says big corporations are bad (I don't disagree,) and he says that the government is owned by big corporations (again, I don't disagree.) Then, he says that we should all be eager to pay our taxes, that our votes are somehow meaningful, and that we should all hand over our firearms to the government for a safer nation. (I totally disagree.)

[@MrBjs007]

Of course he has. He says them repeatedly.

[@marsglorious]

Bradley Scarbrough Wait a sec, that's revealing. Do you think Global Warming is a con to get people to give money to/vote for the Democrats? As for Chomsky's position on tax. He stated that in a functioning democratic society, which the US is not, there wouldn't be this level of hostility towards paying tax because the money would be going towards important social and economic programs that the people themselves had a real part in shaping. Most of the tax today goes to the military, dysfunctional healthcare, corporate welfare, etc.

[@MrBjs007]

I think that Global Warming is a scam to get people to give money to Technocrats, like Noam Chomsky - and Fascist organizations, like MIT. The Democratic Party takes advantage of the guilt and shame (which is basically taught in college) associated with Global Warming - and they get a double bonus - extra votes on a wedge issue and a deluded public willing to shell out more tax money for false government solutions .

[@marsglorious]

What about the rest of the world, which is taking much more serious action on this issue? There is much stronger belief in climate change outside the US and there are no Democrats there.

[@KenyaStyleable]

The interviewer appears to me like a self-righteous and unenlightened pseudo-intellectual. He should do some more thinking and reading especially in the field of natural sciences - by that I mean physics, biology and chemistry. His image I find especially disturbing. The suit and bow tie make him look exactly like the kind of guy who likes irrational luxury at the expense of our beautiful planet. I feel like he cares more about promoting himself than actually raising meaningful questions. I care much about education and changing it but this is not the way to go.

[@rockfan7]

What a superficial comment

[@gurmith]

It's superficial, and he's projecting his own shortcomings onto the interviewer, who he doesn't know anything about.

[@profd65]

You're a sick bitch.

[@ngurenjoroge1016]

uh he’s just not understanding the gravity of the moment off what we are facing