名校雜說

不再多說名校一事。只是想寫下三個想法。

一、有傳統名校的舊生及學生又寫了＜名校教會了我什麼＞。有趣的是我看過的兩篇都有「雖然我讀名校，但我都在名校努力。」只是想說有些人連入名校努力的機會都沒有。我說的就是因為出身的問題。因為與其說自己努力，不如努力關心社會。

二、又有些名校的人說名校不這麼風光，成功與否還是靠自己造化。這看上去又是一種辯護。雖知道名校也有零分生，但同時間我們不得不否認名校是比其他非名校，是更能幫助學生。我已經說這是百分比的問題。在名校成功的機會是否較大，這才是要問的問題。名校畢業生經常假想他人覺得他們學校輕易拿A。說到底也是一種假想。因為說奪Ａ，那麼我的學校也與傳統名校平起平坐了！不能忽視中產或以上的家長如何想進名校，但也不能以此斷言名校中全部學生都是成功，全部都比非名校好。因為名校有其方法去讓學生發展，甚至努力讀書，眼界更闊更遠。如果某些貧窮學生被排於這學校外，這又是否公平？

三、說到底還是應該讓學生發揮所長，而社會應該尊重每種所長。只有在這個基礎上，我們才沒有名校，而是某些學校能培養出某方面才能的學生。也覺得現在某些名校的作風，其實與家境並不是直接相關，只不過是在考試制度影響下，收生制度下，一般學校未必會對成績放手不理，因此不能讓學生發揮所長，反而製造失敗者。因為我們只是狹隘的用公開考試去量度、劃分及標籤學生。

讀了好些文章，連結一些
hystericireul：關於名校，我想說的是　

推介是因為講到讓學生自由發展一處，超越一般文章只講及一般人對名校生成績的幻想。）

葉一知：名校　

推介原因是講及學校是意識形態的重地，可與Althusser 的

Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses的對讀。Althusser 這樣寫:

What do children learn at school? They go varying distances in their studies, but at any rate they learn to read, to write and to add – i.e. a number of techniques, and a number of other things as well, including elements (which may be rudimentary or on the contrary thoroughgoing) of ‘scientific’ or ‘literary culture’, which are directly useful in the different jobs in production (one instruction for manual workers, another for technicians, a third for engineers, a final one for higher management, etc.). Thus they learn know-how.

But besides these techniques and knowledges, and in learning them, children at school also learn the ‘rules’ of good behaviour, i.e. the attitude that should be observed by every agent in the division of labour, according to the job he is ‘destined’ for: rules of morality, civic and professional conscience, which actually means rules of respect for the socio-technical division of labour and ultimately the rules of the order established by class domination. They also learn to ‘speak proper French’, to ‘handle’ the workers correctly, i.e. actually (for the future capitalists and their servants) to ‘order them about’ properly, i.e. (ideally) to ‘speak to them’ in the right way, etc.

To put this more scientifically, I shall say that the reproduction of labour power requires not only a reproduction of its skills, but also, at the same time, a reproduction of its submission to the rules of the established order, i.e. a reproduction of submission to the ruling ideology for the workers, and a reproduction of the ability to manipulate the ruling ideology correctly for the agents of exploitation and repression, so that they, too, will provide for the domination of the ruling class ‘in words.