The country that consistently ranks among the highest in educational achievement is Finland. A rich country, but education … - Noam Chomsky

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Central to being an actor is pretending, and the adventure of it all. That's why you become a junkie for different kinds of situations.

Noam Chomsky

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.

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We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.

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The responsibilities of someone in a more free and open society are, again obviously, greater than those who may pay some cost for honesty and integrity.

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I mean, it’s true, nobody talks about them, but when you bring it up, the idea that you have to rent yourself to somebody and follow their orders, and that they own and you work there, and you built it but you don’t own it, that’s a highly unnatural notion. You don’t have to study any complicated theories to see that this is an attack on human dignity.

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Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think. Tuition fee increases are a disciplinary technique, and by the time students graduate, they are not only loaded with debt, but have also internalized the disciplinarian culture. This makes them efficient components of the consumer economy.

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Technology is basically neutral. It's kind of like a hammer. The hammer doesn't care whether you use it to build a house, or whether a torturer uses it to crush somebody's skull.

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