Prohibitions of Learning

The octroying of forms in a medium can only ever be selective. It exploits certain possibilities and, by favoring them, eclipses others. All Learning in school therefore presupposes corresponding *prohibitions of learning*; and in view of the openness of a medium, naturally much more learning must be prohibited than released by teaching.

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Luhmann, Niklas (1991). Das Kind als Medium der Erziehung. doi , p. 32.