{"id":19117,"date":"2013-12-08T17:57:56","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T17:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/there-have-been-many-measures-taken-to-try-to-turn\/"},"modified":"2013-12-08T17:57:56","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T17:57:56","slug":"there-have-been-many-measures-taken-to-try-to-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/there-have-been-many-measures-taken-to-try-to-turn\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>There have been many measures taken to try to turn the educational system towards more control, more indoctrination, more vocational training, imposing a debt, which traps students and young people into a life of conformity\u2026 That\u2019s the exact opposite of [what] traditionally comes out of The Enlightenment. And there\u2019s a constant struggle between those. In the colleges, in the schools, do you train for passing tests, or do you train for creative inquiry?<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>Passing tests doesn\u2019t begin to compare with searching and inquiring and pursuing topics that engage us and excite us. That\u2019s far more significant than passing tests and, in fact, if that\u2019s the kind of educational career you\u2019re given the opportunity to pursue, you will remember what you discovered.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Lendary linguist and cognitive scientist <strong>Noam Chomsky<\/strong>, born 85 years ago today,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2012\/03\/13\/noam-chomsky-on-the-purpose-of-education\/\">on the purpose of education<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/explore.noodle.org\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">explore-blog<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been many measures taken to try to turn the educational system towards more control, more indoctrination, more vocational training, imposing a debt, which traps students and young people into a life of conformity\u2026 That\u2019s the exact opposite of [what] traditionally comes out of The Enlightenment. And there\u2019s a constant struggle between those. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-4Yl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}