If Chomsky says the educational system is an undemocratic system, you can say, well, you’re there, you have a position at MIT. Well, it’s perfectly attuned to the American system of control, a very sophisticated system of control that allows just enough dissidence so that those in power can point to the fact that the university is democratic but not enough dissidence to create a real danger to the system.
-Howard Zinn
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