Monday, May 27, 2013

"useful citizens"


“(...) Like some other fields, the field of pedagogy too is numbered among those where the point is that freedom should not be allowed access, and opposition not tolerated: what is sought is submissiveness. Effort is invested solely in a purely formal and material training. The stalls of humanism produce only sages; out of the realists come only "useful citizens"; but in both cases , only submissive creatures are turned out, Our old grounding in "badness" is forcibly suffocated as is the blossoming of knowledge into free will. School life also churns out Philistines, Just as, when we were children, we were taught to accept whatever was foisted upon us, so we later accommodate ourselves to a positive life, we defer to our times and wind up as slaves and supposedly "good citizens." “

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