Schools in particular are never neutral sites or free spaces above the conflicts of society. Tangled within the infinite relations of society, they unavoidably, produce, reproduce, and challenge political, social, cultural, and economic directions in society. Schools, like any institution, are places of ongoing struggle over meaning, truth claims, the organization of knowledge and interpersonal relations, classroom practices and so on.

    by Dutton     in Reconstructing Architecture: Critical Discourses and Social Practices, 1995, p. 172