Noam Chomsky on Academic Freedom and the Corporatization of Universities

mendali Says:

Aug 7, 2011 - Nice Harry Potter reference 37:46

tstruss912 Says:

Sep 25, 2011 - Like Ron Paul? There are many like him.

tstruss912 Says:

Sep 26, 2011 - hmmm...yeeessss....they are in on it together aren't they.....I see it clearly now.

xMaXiMuSx Says:

Nov 8, 2011 - Ron Paul has nothing to do with Koch brothers.. Koch Brothers and the mainline republicans like Palin, and some other hijacked the tea party but real tea parties know the difference between teacons and tea partiers.

gamerunknown Says:

Nov 28, 2011 - Even if the head of a corporation supported not letting people starve to death or die from a preventable disease, they probably couldn't come out in favour of that for risk of their share price declining.

Tougemaster06 Says:

Jan 25, 2012 - The Koch Brothers are Libertarian, of the extreme variety just like Ron Paul...

xMaXiMuSx Says:

Jan 26, 2012 - nonsense.. Koch brothers are corportists who want special privilages.. It's not Ron Paul that Koch is funding but fake tea partiers like Bachman and yor regular republicans..Noam Chomsky is genius in many thing but in terms of economics he is inferior to Ron Paul..

xMaXiMuSx Says:

Jan 26, 2012 - You know as big of a genious as Noam Chomsky is he can't figure our why univeristies are becoming like "corporations'.. It's because of goverment guaranteed loans that allows Univeristies to become as big as they want because they can charge any price they want for tution cause they goverment will guarantee the money.

lovelplants Says:

Jan 26, 2012 - very nice noam .. :)

ped200014 Says:

Jan 29, 2012 - "Universities don't produce commodities for profit" Uhh, that is all they do. They produce workers for corporate profit. You just explained the Trilateral Commission criticized them for not adequetly indoctrinating. So why defend them? Like the media, they rely on passive information absorbtion and rote memorization. Instead of the college > corporate worker > consumer paradigm how about promoting autodidacticism? As you profess the smartest man you ever knew only graduated the 4th grade.

RipTheJackR Says:

Mar 15, 2012 - yay, another brainwashed ron paul'er. probably the least likable thing about ron paul - considering hes the most intellectual honest (he takes shortcuts too, he gotta reach americans afterall) politican (in your current climate, with any coverage that is) is suffering from his fucking retarding adherence, be a scientific libertarian, not a dogmatic cockryder.

xMaXiMuSx Says:

Mar 15, 2012 - ok.. it's funny how you can't dispute what I said, and actually I do not plan to vote for anyone.. but Paul is more credible than Chomsky.. I'll take him over Chomsky..

PleaseBeCritical Says:

Apr 22, 2012 - Meh I liked her introduction :P

gamerunknown Says:

Apr 30, 2012 - There are government guaranteed loans in other countries where citizens enjoy much higher degrees of academic freedom.

xMaXiMuSx Says:

Apr 30, 2012 - yeah they put a price floor on tutions at least.. It's better than nothing.. you're still paying for education through taxes. academic freedon where?? I doubt it.. if goverment guarantees collapsed tutions would collapse, because no one could afford to go to college at these prices without the loans, therefore schools would have to cut cost dramatically.

gamerunknown Says:

Apr 30, 2012 - You doubt that academic freedom is higher in countries other than the US? The Nordic countries have zero tuition fees.

xMaXiMuSx Says:

Apr 30, 2012 - in some maybe.. not mostNordic countries dont have "zero tution fees". Someone has to pay the teachers, books, equipment, maintence.. It's called high taces in Nordic countries.. Extremely high, much higher than here..

xMaXiMuSx Says:

Apr 30, 2012 - Taxes*

gamerunknown Says:

Apr 30, 2012 - You've shifted the goalposts from talking about costs for students (price floor on tuitions) to costs for the taxpayer. I was obviously talking about tuition fees paid for by the student. Taxation is higher in Sweden and Norway, but so are standards of education throughout primary and secondary school and average lifespan. Notably lower are infant mortality rates, homicide and obesity. US universities tend to rank higher, but the highest ranking uni in the world is in the socialist UK.

xMaXiMuSx Says:

Apr 30, 2012 - standards of education were fine in the US until the department of education and goverment got involved with loans and of course they have had to water it down because everyone goes. In another words it is worthless. yeah we have a lot of problems here but we shouln't fix it by Socialising it.. UK is hardly a socialist country, they got a lot of problems and socialist features contribute to it. What's your point actually? that someone who isn't going to college paying for someone who is, is a

xMaXiMuSx Says:

Apr 30, 2012 - good policy?

gamerunknown Says:

Apr 30, 2012 - 70 years ago illiteracy rates approached 3% (5* that of today), with 11.5% of the black population being illiterate. The disparity is reduced today (0.6 and 1.6% respectively). Inasmuch as basic literacy is required for math and science, the population is more adept now. Norwegians are not being taxed to death: quite the opposite, increased taxation correlates to longer lifespan in industriaised countries. Said hypothetical individual benefits personally from the educated society.

glenned816 Says:

May 5, 2012 - Fuck Chomsky the terrorist-sympathizer