Michel Foucault Quotes about School

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

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

Michel Foucault

School, People, Prison

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

Michel Foucault

School, Prison, Factories

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

Teacher, Children, School

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

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.

Michel Foucault

School, Army, Punishment

Michel Foucault Quotes about School

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