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Quote for the Week (Foucault)

Jim Riley

27th October 2009

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I’m feeling in an anti-authoritarian mood today, so, just for all you fans of quality assurance and the value-for-money approach to life, here’s something from Foucault. See what you can make of it.

“The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the ‘social worker’-judge; it is on them that the universal reign of the normative is based; and each individual, wherever he may find himself, subjects to it his body, his gestures, his behaviour, his aptitudes, his achievements.”

Discipline and Punish, p304.

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Jim Riley

Jim co-founded tutor2u alongside his twin brother Geoff! Jim is a well-known Business writer and presenter as well as being one of the UK's leading educational technology entrepreneurs.

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