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.

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His newspaper The New York Times criticized his statements and issued him a formal reprimand for "public remarks that could undermine public trust in the paper's impartiality.

He spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America the Middle East Africa and the Balkans. Chris Hedges is currently a senior fellow at The Nation Institute in New York City. He has taught at Columbia University New York University Princeton University and The University of Toronto.