Noam Chomsky - On Being Truly Educated

my name is Nam Chomsky I'm a retired professor at the mastery center of Technology where I've been for 65 years I think I can do no better about answering the question of what it means to be truly educated than to go back to some of the classic views on the subject for example the views expressed by the founder of the modern higher education system bill hum von Humboldt leading humanist figure of the Enlightenment to wrote extensively on education and human development and argued I think kind of very plausibly that the core principle and requirement of a fulfilled human being is the ability to inquire and create constructively independently without external controls to move to a modern counterpart a leading physicists talk right here used to tell us classes that it's not important what we cover in the class it's important what you discover but to be truly educated from this point of view means to be in a position to inquire and create on the basis of the resources available to you which you've come to appreciate and comprehend to know where to look to know how to form formulate serious questions to question a standard doctrine if it if that's appropriate to find your own way to shape the questions that are worth pursuing and to develop the path to pursue them that means knowing understanding many things but also much more important than what you have stored in your mind to know where to look how to look how to question how to challenge how to proceed independently to deal with the challenges that the world presents to you and that you develop in the course of your self education and inquiry and the investigations in cooperation and solidarity with others that's what an educational system should cultivate from kindergarten to the high graduate school and in the best cases sometimes does and that leads to people who are I'm least by my standards will educate you

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Length: 3min 34sec (214 seconds)

Published: Tue May 26 2015