“We must free ourselves from this cultural conservatism, as well as from political conservatism. We must uncover our rituals for what they are: completely arbitrary things, tied to our bourgeois way of life; it is good-and that is the real theater-to transcend them in the manner of play, by means of…”— Michel Foucault, learningspaces.orgTagged: Against Conservatism, Play With Reality
“The student is put outside of society, on a campus. Furthermore he is excluded while being transmitted a knowledge traditional in nature, obsolete, 'academic' and not directly tied to the needs and problems of today.”— Michel Foucault, learningspaces.orgTagged: College, Higher Education, Campus As An Escape From Reality, Campuses of Conservatism
“The university is no doubt little different from those systems in so-called primitive societies in which the young men are kept outside the village during their adolescence, undergoing rituals of initiation which separate them and sever all contact between then: and real, active society”— Michel Foucault, learningspaces.orgTagged: College, Systems of Control, Higher Education
“What I would like to grasp is the system of limits and exclusion which we practice without knowing it; I would like to make the cultural unconscious apparent.”— Michel Foucault, learningspaces.orgTagged: Understanding Where We Limit Things, Breaking Barriers, Bringing The Unconscious to the Forefront