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Paul Graham's "Why Nerds Are Unpopular"[0] article makes multiple references to the similarity between prison and school - especially how they both devolve into
by fouc 3y ago
Paul Graham's "Why Nerds Are Unpopular"[0] article makes multiple references to the similarity between prison and school - especially how they both devolve into popularity contests.
[0] https://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html https://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html
- jacquesm 3y agoI'm fairly sure Paul hasn't been in prison and from the people that I know that have been in prison, especially in the United States it is nothing at all like school, even if there may be some superficial similarities.
- PaulHoule 3y agoFor me being the victim of violence was part of the curriculum and I wound up "graduating" from elementary school the same way Ender Wiggin did.
- mcphage 3y agoBy killing another kid?
- PaulHoule 3y agoMaking an attempt. Never had a talk with the principal, they just told my parents not to send me back. It was a shame because otherwise I liked that school. That kid was making threats against my life and I told the principal before that if he couldn't stop it I would protect myself.
- temeya 3y agoWhile Michel Foucault sometimes gets a bad rep, he does actually talk about this in length in his book "Discipline and Punish (1975)" [0], in which the prison ends up becoming the Blueprint for other spaces such as the school, the barracks, the hospital and the factory/workplace. While dense, I would still recommend the text. [0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discipline_and_Punish https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discipline_and_Punish