Education Flashcards
Louis Althusser, ‘Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses’, 1984
“a certain number of realities which present themselves to the immediate observer in the form of distinct and specialised institutions”
“the ideological state apparatuses function by ideology”
(Althusser 1984)
The Dispossed, Ursula Le Guin, 1975
“some of them objected strongly to his giving everyone the same mark. How could the diligent students be distinguished from the dull ones?”
(Le Guin 1999)
The Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels, 1888
“Communists… seek to… rescue education from the influence of the ruling class” on replacing home education
(Marx and Engels 2008)
S.L. Itasehvskii, 2011, Education and Ideology
“In the history of relations between politics and education, politics has always dominated; political ideology has served as the means and the goal of education.”
(Itashevskii 2011)
The Dispossessed 2
“They were planning careers as academical or industrial scientists, and what they learned from him was to them a means to that end, success in their careers”
(Le Guin 1999)
CM 2
“all family ties among proletarians are torn asunder, and their children transformed into simple articles of commerce and instruments of labour”
(Marx and Engels 2008)