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The arguments by current education reformers: that too many Black parents do not value education and are not transmitting the proper values to their children; that teachers’ unions are an obstacle to racial justice in education; that philanthropists are Black parents’ best ally in the struggle for equality; and that racial justice is not synonymous with desegregation or equitable funding, but rather with market-oriented changes that foster competition and encourage private-sector management of schools are based on a dubious set of propositions about racial politics today.
Education and Capitalism
Sarah Knopp;Jeff Bale
Anxiety appears as a source of self-knowledge because it is through our experience of it that we detect the presence of inner conflict in our psyche and realize we live in a divided, not unitary, house; that we understand that within us lurks repression—in response to this world’s guilt-inducing restrictions; that we realize we have suffered losses in our history whose recurrence we fear in our lives; and that we live our lives threatened by, and fearfully anticipating, a familiar yet archaic loss.
Both the approach to law as immanent order and the view of law as the will of the sovereign depend on a third idea of law: law as the real structure of society.
The Universal History of Legal Thought
Roberto Mangabeira Unger
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