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Problematization 3: Is media and the academic system a danger to intelligence?

The BBC article "Lesson one: no Orwellian language"suggests that education has somehow been undermined through the corruption of the very language used to discuss education itself.

Professor Richard Pring of Oxford University believes that education has been taken over by an "Orwellian language" which has started to control the way we think and act, pointing out how the aims and values of education has become "dominated by the language of management."

More examples of this language are:

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Is Media a Danger to Democracy?

Is Media a Danger to Democracy?
From the Third World Traveler
by Robert Parry, American Dispatches magazine (formerly iF magazine), Feb. 2000

Shortly before New Year's 2000, writer Robert D. Kaplan penned a New York Times commentary about the world's future.

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