How many [teachers] (the majority) do not even begin to suspect the ‘work’ the system (which is bigger than they are and crushes them) forces them to do, or worse, put all their heart and ingenuity into performing it with the most advanced awareness (the famous new methods!). So little do they suspect it that their own devotion contributes to the maintenance and nourishment of this ideological representation of the School, which makes the School today as ‘natural,’ indispensable, useful and even beneficial for our contemporaries as the Church was ‘natural,’ indispensable and generous for our ancestors a few centuries ago.

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   Was just thinking about this paper this morning. Relevant application to my ‘working’ life.

4. academicflail said: i think this quote is a sizable component of how i came to my interest in higher ed. still vividly remember reading it sophomore year loving structuralism.
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