Drawing from a nine-year period of the writings of Noam Chomsky in which the linguist and philosopher expanded his published contributions into fields apparently remote from his strictly academic interests, this article seeks to extrapolate systematically and infer Chomsky's attitudes to the institution of Education. These attitudes and positions are presented as if they were Chomsky's own assembled views and interpreted by the author liberally in his own style within an objective context. The many attitudes deduced are collated and categorized under headings which are helpful for appreciating the range of Chomsky's comment and the relevance and coherency of his views. A final section considers the general consistency of Chomsky's attitudes and contrasts the two major strains of influence on his educational thought, the one revealed in his polemical writings and the other in his more formal and detailed academic publications during the period.
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