The same technology that silences also fuels resistance to that silence.

Evidence

The paradox is that the same technology that does this to us also creates a new sensitivity to what is happening. Especially among young people, the new media together with the erosion of old concepts of authority open the way to acute awareness of this new bondage. The young perceive that their right to say their own word has been stolen from them, and that few things are more important than the struggle to win it back. And they also realize that the educational system today—from kindergarten to university—is their enemy. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 71

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: is this empirical claim about youth actually holding today, when social media seems to deepen conformity rather than breed resistance?
• SEED: Angle: the educational system as ‘enemy’ — a diagnosis of today’s school-to-desire pipeline.