Education Is Discipline

Michel Foucault left us lots of ideological treasure about the Subject, Discourse, Discipline, Micro-power and so on. Although he didn’t draw much attention to education in his writings, the proposition about ‘power-knowledge’, ‘disciplinary techniques’ didn’t attach to the field of Education directly neither, but what he researched widens the space of Education research, and the thoughts of‘Discipline’becomes academic discourse in the field of Education. So, there has realistic significance to research his concept of Education. This paper discusses the main meaning of the Micro-power and Foucault’s proposition of ‘power-knowledge’, and reviews Foucault’s concept of education. At last, discusses the revelation of Foucault’s concept of education for contemporary education from the perspective of critical pedagogy.Currently, our education is full of‘discipline’means;known as knowledge is not objective at all, and marked with power, power is full of the field of education, every time and everywhere. As the operation technology, discipline’s mainly operating form is hierarchical observation, standardization ruling and exam. Our education distinguishes and decides on the students through an automatic, continuous power operation, A division of the education space and time, ubiquitous discipline and punishment and a set of standardized criteria.So, we can draw the conclusion that the main content of Foucault’s education concept. The concept of knowledge: Knowledge is diverse and complex text, with a non-objectivity. The subject concept: digestion capitalized rational subject. Discipline education causes the student’s alienation and homogenization. There is no priori unified educational purposes at all. And find the combination of knowledge and power, the "repression and control" mode in our education. So, we can conclude that disciplinary education is a system which‘see things but not people’. The proposition of critical pedagogy has the same with Foucault’s. Both seek the traces of Ideology in education, the characteristics of discipline in education, the non-objectivity of knowledge. and the combination of knowledge and power. Currently,we begin to research the political factors in education, revisit the usefulness and legality of knowledge, new understanding of teachers’ roles. All changes in perspective can show the effects of Foucault’s studies in modern education.