"Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people."
"Since the Fall, man had accepted labor as a penance and for its power to work redemption. It was not a law of nature which forced man to work, but the effect of a curse."
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Source: Michel Foucault (2013). “Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason”, p.55, Vintage
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