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Linguist gives students lesson in free thinking
Dundee-Crown talks politics with MIT professor
By Emily Krone
Daily Herald Staff
5/17/2008 12:16 AM
In a second-floor classroom at a Carpentersville high school, one of
America's most renowned free-thinkers warned about 40 assembled students
that the American public school system conspires to blunt their
creativity and engender their obedience.
Via speakerphone from his office at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, linguistics professor Noam Chomsky told Dundee-Crown High
School students that a two-tiered educational system exists: While the
elite attend schools that promote critical, independent thought, the
masses attend schools that train students to pass tests and follow orders.
