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AUDIENCE: You've had
a chance to look over

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the syllabus for this course.

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What value do you think
it might have for learners

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in the outside
world, and would you

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recommend that they take
a look at these readings

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and try to apply them
to their own lives?

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NOAM CHOMSKY: Yeah,
quite definitely.

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I mean, if we want to have
any constructive impact

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on the world, any interchange
with the world that

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will improve it will deal with
the innumerable problems that

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exist.

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It has to be based
on understanding

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of social, political,
economic reality.

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Otherwise, you can't
act in any serious way,

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just as you couldn't
go into a chemistry lab

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and conduct an
experiment unless you

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knew something good chemistry.

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Otherwise, you could mix
chemicals and make funny smells

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and so on.

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But if you want to
do something serious,

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you have to understand first.

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And the syllabus of the course
and conduct of the course

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aimed at and I think
succeeds in providing

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the kind of fundamental
understanding and challenge

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open questions that
people have to think about

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if they want to be
able to participate

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in a meaningful way in
the general society.