Michel Foucault Quotes About School

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  • To punish is the most difficult thing there is. A society such as ours needs to question every aspect of punishment as it is practiced everywhere: in the army, the schools, the factories.

  • I wasn't always smart, I was actually very stupid in school [T]here was a boy who was very attractive who was even stupider than I was. And in order to ingratiate myself with this boy who was very beautiful, I began to do his homework for him – and that's how I became smart, I had to do all this work to just keep ahead of him a little bit, in order to help him. In a sense, all the rest of my life I've been trying to do intellectual things that would attract beautiful boys.

  • Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.

  • Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?

    Michael Kelly, Michel Foucault (1994). “Critique and Power: Recasting the Foucault/Habermas Debate”, p.176, MIT Press
  • In actual fact. The manifold sexualities - those which appear with the different ages (sexualities of the infant or the child), those which become fixated on particular tastes or practices (the sexuality of the invert, the gerontophile, the fetishist), those which, in a diffuse manner, invest relationships (the sexuality of doctor and patient, teacher and student, psychiatrist and mental patient), those which haunt spaces (the sexuality of the home, the school, the prison)- all form the correlate of exact procedures of power.

    Michel Foucault (2012). “The History of Sexuality: An Introduction”, p.47, Vintage
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Michel Foucault

  • Born: October 15, 1926
  • Died: June 25, 1984
  • Occupation: Philosopher