What Workers Think & Objectivity (was Re: Cops Etc)

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Feb 17 07:06:55 PST 2000


Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


>In other words, Foucault & Co. have made popular either an inability or a
>refusal to make a distinction between prisons & schools, for instance,
>_just because_ the latter also "police" people's behaviors.

Oh it's not just Foucault - it's lots of kids who experience the awfulness of so much American schooling (can't say what it's like elsewhere). Places that make you into "just another brick in the wall," if you want to be really debased and quote Pink Floyd. Of course schools are not prisons, but sometimes they feel that way.

Doug



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