… just as Hasan herself was so appropriately renowned for ’saying it straight’:
… is a simple matter of physical access to official pedagogic discourse, as if
education is not an arena where the social class struggle is fought every day,
with the odds heavily stacked against the dominated members of society.
Collected Works, Vol.1:148
Certainly such knowledge as is produced in the educational system contributes
to the greater power of that class which happens to be in control of the
pedagogic system. Collected Works, Vol. 3: 117
…. etc