
A piece I wrote about the "it" girl of union busting, DC Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee, appears in the Speakout column of NY Teacher. It's on page 20 of the paper, right here on the net, or in its unedited glory right here on the blog.
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.
~Noam Chomsky