1. Pedagogy: Politics: Power

2. ... pedagogy is a principal feature of politics because it provides the capacities, knowledge, skills and social relations through which individuals recognise themselves as social and political agents. Henry Giroux (2003: 479-480)

3. Until then, [Jacotot] had believed what all conscientious professors believe: that the important business of the master (sic) is to transmit his knowledge to his students so as to bring them, by degrees, to his own level of expertise. Like all conscientious professors, he knew that teaching was not in the slightest about cramming students with knowledge and having them repeat it like parrots... the essential act of the master was to explicate... To teach was to transmit learning and form minds simultaneously, by leading those minds, according to an ordered progression, from the most simple to the most complex (emphasis in original). Rancière (1991: 2-3)

4. ... the myth of pedagogy, the parable of a world divided into knowing minds and ignorant ones, ripe minds and immature ones, the capable and the incapable, the intelligent and the stupid. The explicator’s special trick consists of this double inaugural gesture. On the one hand, he decrees the absolute beginning; it is only now that the act of learning will begin. On the other, having thrown a veil of ignorance over everything that is to be learnt, he appoints himself to the task of lifting it Rancière (1991: 6-7).

5. http://www.ted.com/talks/ Ken Robinson Changing Education Paradigms

6. Article 26. (1) Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit. (2) Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace. (3) Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.

7. http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/about/strategy

8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y R5ApYxkU-U