Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
Michel FoucaultLittle information is published on prisons, it is one of the hidden regions of our social system, one of the dark zones of our life.
Michel FoucaultThere is a sort of myth of History that philosophers have.... History for philosophers is some sort of great, vast continuity in which the freedom of individuals and economic or social determinations come and get entangled. When someone lays a finger on one of those great themes--continuity, the effective exercise of human liberty, how individual liberty is articulated with social determinations--when someone touches one of these three myths, these good people start crying out that History is being raped or murdered.
Michel FoucaultYou may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don't imagine that, with all that you are saying, you will make a man that will live longer than he.
Michel Foucault