Noam Chomsky Quotes About Creativity

• The most striking aspect of linguistic competence is what we may call the 'creativity of language,' that is, the speaker's ability to produce new sentences, sentences that are immediately UNDERSTOOD by other speakers although they bear no physical resemblance to sentences which are 'familiar.

  Noam Chomsky

  Creativity, May, Bears

  Noam Chomsky (2012). “Selected Readings on Transformational Theory”, p.8, Courier Corporation

• In my experience at least, the large public universities do not fall behind in fostering creativity and independence; often the contrary.

  Noam Chomsky

  Fall, Creativity, Independence

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

• The focus on creativity and independence exists in pockets of resistance in the educational system, which, to thrive, should be integrated with the needs and concerns of the great majority of the population. One finds them everywhere.

  Noam Chomsky

  Educational, Creativity, Focus

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

• Washington basically works for the corporate sector and Silicon Valley, technically at least, is suppose to sponsor initiative in creativity, whether it does or not is another question.

  Noam Chomsky

  Creativity, Valleys, Doe

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

• In the sciences particularly the large public universities must and do take an active role in fostering creativity and independence; otherwise the fields will wither, and along with them even the aspirations of wealth and power.

  Noam Chomsky

  Creativity, Independence, Fields

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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