Discover new books on Goodreads
Meet your next favorite book

Austin

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Austin.


Empire of Illusio...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Suicide Notes
Austin is currently reading
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Loading...
Chris Hedges
“We’ve bought into the idea that education is about training and “success”, defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and to challenge. We should not forget that the true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers. A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, which fails to understand that the measure of a civilization is its compassion, not its speed or ability to consume, condemns itself to death.”
― Chris Hedges, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

Chris Hedges
“Ironically, the universities have trained hundreds of thousands of graduates for jobs that soon will not exist. They have trained people to maintain a structure that cannot be maintained. The elite as well as those equipped with narrow, specialized vocational skills, know only how to feed the beast until it dies. Once it is dead, they will be helpless. Don’t expect them to save us. They do not even know how to ask the questions, And when it all collapses, when our rotten financial system with its trillions in worthless assets implode and our imperial wars end in humiliation and defeat, the power elite will be exposed as being as helpless, and as self-deluded, as the rest of us.”
― Chris Hedges, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

70944 Avery's English 11 AP — 232 members — last activity Jul 22, 2012 06:48PM
We are evolving scholars seeking collaboration through reading.
year in books
Darienn...
77 books | 61 friends

Sohum
6,448 books | 478 friends

Mark
123 books | 138 friends

Bee Soll
1,083 books | 286 friends

Madelei...
2,332 books | 143 friends

Viktoria
177 books | 66 friends

Lauren ...
424 books | 71 friends

Jex
Jex
1,185 books | 108 friends

More friends…


Polls voted on by Austin

Lists liked by Austin