Chomsky on Democracy and Education

<p>Engaging and incisive,<em> Chomsky on Democracy and Education</em> is the first collection of writings, talks, and interviews, some previously unpublished, of his views on language, power, policy, and method in education.</p> <p>Prologue: Democracy and Education (October 1994)<br>I. Science: The Genetic Endowment <br>1. Things No Amount of Learning Can Teach (November 1983)<br>2. Language as a Key to Human Nature and Society (1975)<br>3. A Really New Way of Looking at Language (November 1987)<br>4. Perspectives on Language and Mind (October 1999)<br>II. Anthropology: The Cultural Environment (Vision and Reality) <br>5. Rationality/Science and Post-This-or-That (1992)<br>6. Equality: Language Development, Human Intelligence, and Social Organization (1976)<br>7. Two Conceptions of Social Organization (February 16, 1970)<br>8. Some Tasks for Responsible People (1969)<br>9. Toward a Humanistic Conception of Education (April 1970)<br>10. The Function of the University in a Time of Crisis (1969)<br>11. Scholarship and Commitment, Then and Now (December 1999)<br>12. The Mechanisms and Practices of Indoctrination (December 1984)<br>13. The Task of the Media: Central America as a Test Case (April 1989)<br>14. Propaganda and Control of the Public Mind (February 1997)<br>15. Prospects for Democracy (March 1994)<br>III. The Educational Institutions <br>16. Some Thoughts on Intellectuals and the Schools (June 1966)<br>17. The Responsibility of a University Community (May 31, 1969)<br>18. Remarks Before the MIT Commission on MIT Education (November 1969)<br>19. Two Roles of the American University (1997)<br>20. The Universities and the Corporations (May 1973)<br>IV. Language in the Classroom <br>21. Some Observations on the Teaching of Language (September 1969)<br>22. Language Theory and Language Teaching (August 1966)<br>23. Our Understanding of Language and the Curriculum (1964)<br>24. Language Theory and Language Use (1981)<br>25. Language, Politics, and Composition (1991)</p>