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Noam Chomsky's Early Life
On December 7, 1928 Noam Chomsky was born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. He was raised in Philadelphia in a Jewish middle class home and raised with his younger brother David. Noam Chomsky experienced The Great Depression and one of his earliest memories was witnessing injustice all around him and watched security officers beat women strikers outside of a textile plant. -
Noam Chomsky's Early life and Education
In the 1930s, Noam Chomsky's mother Elsie Simonofsky, who was a Russian Jewish immigrant had been an activist in the radical politics. Like his mother, Noam's father Willam Chomsky was a well respected professor of Hebrew at Gratz College which was an institution for teachers in training. Following Noam's early school days, at age 10 Noam Chomsky attended a progressive elementary school where he could better analyze his intellectual interests. -
Noam Chomsky begins to study at The University of Pennsylvania
At the age of 13, Noam Chomsky began his studies at the University of Pennsylvania and found very little interest in his classes. Noam met an American scholar Zellig S. Harris, who discovered structural linguistics. Harris influenced Chomsky greatly and lead him and his potential to advance to undergraduate studies where Noam received his Bachelors of Arts and Masters of Arts. -
Noam Chomsky at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
The staff at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology invited Noam Chomsky to join their ranks in 1955. Now a professor, Chomsky worked in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy for fifty years and after retired from teaching in 2005. During Noam's time as a professor, he introduced transformational grammar into the Linguistics field and had a theory that defends that languages are elemental and that made a point that that's why children have an easier time learning other languages.