"Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people."
"I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning."
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Source: Michel Foucault (1988). “Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault”, Univ of Massachusetts Press
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