Anarchist Pedagogies Quotes

“Gustav Landauer best summarized this conceptual problematic in this way: “The state is not something which can be destroyed by a revolution, but is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of human behavior; we destroy it by contracting other behavior, by behaving differently” (Ward, 1973, p. 23). Understanding oppressive institutions as not “things” to be destroyed, but relationships to remake and ideas to replace is a double-edged sword. It is frustrating in that it disperses the sites of critical social contestation against oppressive institutions and ideas to, literally, the minds of every individual (though this does not preclude traditional externalized social struggles for greater equity and liberty). It is encouraging, though, in that it reveals their nonmonolithic and mutable nature.”
― Robert H. Haworth, Anarchist Pedagogies: Collective Actions, Theories, and Critical Reflections on Education

“When he published What Is Property? in 1840, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon became the first person to call himself an anarchist (Proudhon, 2003). He was not, however, the first person to call for the abolition of the state. For this reason, scholarship traces the anarchist tradition back to William Godwin.”
― Robert H. Haworth, Anarchist Pedagogies: Collective Actions, Theories, and Critical Reflections on Education

“this volume seeks to highlight the multiple sites where anarchist pedagogies operate and where they extend throughout the different locales and communities where knowledge is produced.”
― Robert H. Haworth, Anarchist Pedagogies: Collective Actions, Theories, and Critical Reflections on Education

“challenging power requires (credentialed) knowledge, yet the acquisition of that knowledge is organized so that it reinforces credentialed system of power” (Abercrombie and Urry, 1983, p. 17).”
― Robert H. Haworth, Anarchist Pedagogies: Collective Actions, Theories, and Critical Reflections on Education