Tag: school

  • Foucault on School-Prison and Prison-School Pipelines

    Foucault on School-Prison and Prison-School Pipelines

    “So successful has the prison been that, after a century and a half of ‘failures’, the prison still exists, producing the same results, and there is the greatest reluctance to dispense with it.”  Foucault, Discipline and Punish, 277 In my mini-review of Bryan Caplan’s polemic against education, I noted that he partly ignores Foucaultian arguments…