Battle-lines.

Doisneau, La Pendule, 1957

Total surveillance is increasingly the general condition of society as a whole.  The real political task in a society such as ours is to criticize the workings of institutions that appear to be both neutral and independent, to criticize and attack them in such a manner that the political violence that has always exercised itself obscurely through them will be unmasked, so that one can fight against them.

"The prison" begins well before its doors. It begins as soon as you leave your house – and even before.
Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?
Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.

Education may well be, as of right, the instrument whereby every individual, in a society like our own, can gain access to any kind of discourse. But we well know that in its distribution, in what it permits and in what it prevents, it follows the well-trodden battle-lines of social conflict. Every educational system is a political means of maintaining or of modifying the appropriation of discourse, with the knowledge and the powers it carries with it.

Michel Foucault