Pierre Bourdieu/bourdieu%e2%80%99s Theory of Power and Practice

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    “The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    “History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man’s power in the world.”
    —Heraclitus (c. 535–475 B.C.)

    “It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.”
    —Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)