"The Teacher's obligation is to be patient enough to permit deliberation and decision by each of those he is trying to help. If his students do not choose, each in the light of his own contingent existence and his own limitations, they will not become ethical beings; if they are not ethical beings -- in search of their own ethical reality -- they are not individuals; if they are not individuals, they will not learn." -- From The Point of View Kierkegaard
Second question of the day: What is the proper role for the individual in a political society? Enter Foucault:
“the real political task in a society such as ours is to criticize the workings of institutions, which appear to be both neutral and independent; to criticize and attack them in such a manner that the political violence which has always exercised itself obscurely through them will be unmasked, so then one can fight against them .. this critique and this fight seem essential to me.. one must locate the point of activity, and its places and forms”
furthermore:
“It is custom to consider that political-power is localized in the hands of the government and exercised through (big) institutions, the police, the army; one knows that all of them are made to elaborate and to transmit decisions (in the name of a greater good), apply them, and punish those who don’t obey. But I believe power also exercises itself through the mediation of a certain number of institutions which look as if they have *nothing* in common with power, and as if they are independent of it, while they are not” ..
All done, now your moment of Zen:
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