The university and in a general way, all teaching systems, which appear simply to disseminate knowledge, are made to maintain a certain social class in power; and to exclude the instruments of power of another social class.
I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the be… - Michel Foucault
I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the be…
- Michel Foucault
Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a compl… - Michel Foucault
Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a compl…
People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does. - Michel Foucault
People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.
Where there is power, there is resistance. - Michel Foucault
Where there is power, there is resistance.
Search for what is good and strong and beautiful in your society and elaborate from there. Push outward. Always create from what you already have. Th… - Michel Foucault
Search for what is good and strong and beautiful in your society and elaborate from there. Push outward. Always create from what you already have. Th…
Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ? - Michel Foucault
Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ?
Power is tolerable only on condition that it mask a substantial part of itself. Its success is proportional to its ability to hide its own mechanisms. - Michel Foucault
Power is tolerable only on condition that it mask a substantial part of itself. Its success is proportional to its ability to hide its own mechanisms.
Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people. - Michel Foucault
Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
'Truth' is to be understood as a system of ordered procedures for the production, regulation, distribution, circulation and operation of statements. … - Michel Foucault
'Truth' is to be understood as a system of ordered procedures for the production, regulation, distribution, circulation and operation of statements. …
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