At this moment of national disgrace, as American technology is running amuck?a discussion of American schools can hardly avoid noting the fact that these schools are the first training ground for the troops that will enforce the muted, unending terror of the status quo in the coming years of a projected American century; for the technicians who will be developing the means for extension of American power; for the intellectuals who can be counted on, in significant measure, to provide the ideological justification for this particular form of barbarism and to decry the irresponsibility and lack of sophistication of those who will find all of this intolerable and revolting.
Lub sijhawm no ntawm kev txaj muag hauv tebchaws, raws li Asmeskas cov thev naus laus zis tab tom khiav amuck? kev sib tham ntawm Asmeskasโฆ
Noam Chomsky (yug thaum Lub Kaum Ob Hlis 7, 1928, hauv Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) yog ib tug neeg Asmeskas lus Askiv, tus kws tshaj lij, tus kws paub txog kev txawj ntse, tus sau keeb kwm, tus neeg thuam neeg, thiab kev nom kev tswv. Qee lub sij hawm hu ua "leej txiv ntawm kev paub lus niaj hnub", Chomsky kuj yog ib qho tseem ceeb hauv kev xav txog kev xav thiab yog ib tus tsim ntawm kev paub txog kev txawj ntse. Nws yog Laureate xibfwb ntawm Linguistics ntawm University of Arizona thiab ib lub koom haum xibfwb Emeritus ntawm Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), thiab yog tus sau ntau tshaj 150 phau ntawv. Nws tau sau thiab qhia dav dav txog kev hais lus, kev xav, keeb kwm kev txawj ntse, cov teeb meem niaj hnub no, thiab tshwj xeeb tshaj yog cov xwm txheej thoob ntiaj teb thiab Asmeskas txoj cai txawv teb chaws. Chomsky tau yog ib tug kws sau ntawv rau Z tej yaam num txij li thaum lawv pib ntxov, thiab yog ib tug neeg txhawb nqa ntawm peb txoj haujlwm.