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> School doesn’t have to be boring. School can be the most exciting experience you ever had, and it sometimes is. If schools are boring it is because decisions are made to make them boring, and some of these decisions are at a federal level, and some at a state level, but they are decisions. So the conception of teaching to tests is designed to make education as boring, and stupid, and stultifying as possible.
https://chomsky.info/20130524/
#NoamChomsky #BoringSchool #BoringDecisions #School #Testing
Noam Chomsky – “Beyond Fascism” | Noam Chomsky interviewed by John Holder and Doug Morris

The Noam Chomsky Website.

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7Y.O.: ‘Why are we here?'”
NC: There are two views about that which go back to #ClassicalGreece, maybe before. One is we are here for the same reason that rocks and trees and grass are here. That is just the way the #RulesOfNature worked out, and they happened to lead to us just like they led to other things.
> The other answer, which goes back to Aristotle actually, is that everything in nature has a purpose and a function...then #Aristotle drew some pretty ugly conclusions from that...
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> Take say, if I’m holding this here [cup of water], and say the water is boiling [putting hand over water], the steam will rise, but if I take my hand away the cup will fall. Well why does the cup fall and the steam rise? Well for millennia there was a satisfactory answer to that: they’re seeking their natural place.
> Katz: Like in #Aristotelian physics?
> Chomsky: That’s the #AristotelianPhysics.
https://chomsky.info/20121101/
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/11/noam-chomsky-on-where-artificial-intelligence-went-wrong/261637/
#YardenKatz #HistoryOfScience
Noam Chomsky on Where Artificial Intelligence Went Wrong, Noam Chomsky interviewed by Yarden Katz

The Noam Chomsky Website.

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