So it's almost like taking people on a journey.

TV As you know British writer and broadcaster Danny Wallace currently has a tv series on the BBC in which he's attempting to set up his own independent country in his flat in London. Tonight's episode looked at consitutional affairs and government and he went to see Noam Chomsky for some advice. Chomsky seemed slightly bemused but tried to helpful, and here is a transcript of all the interesting and useful things he had to say:

" There's a famous founder of the modern university system, Guillaume von Humbolt, German, important intellectual, he once said that you shouldn't really teach people, you should lay out a thread which they can then follow on their own and discover what it is that they ought to know, which you may not know, you may learn along the way as well. And I think that's the right attitude towards not only teaching but so-called leadership, leading. Like the goal of a leader ought to be to, basically eliminate himself."

At the end Wallace gave him a t-shirt with the work 'Ambassador' printed on in big yellow letters, which made him an ambassador for the still unnamed country. As Wallace said: "If you'll accept it. So it's up to you, you can be Citizen Chomsky, or Ambassador Noam."