ABSTRACT
Critique is the home of the true form of education and of die critical intellectual who will one day transform die school and society into expressions of self-developing personhood. Intellectual critique is itself internally dependent on the strong state to provide the conditions of social peace and moral improvement needed for its own existence as a practice of 'enlightenment'. Seen from this perspective there is nothing incongruous about critical intellectuals holding powerful bureaucratic office. The bureaucratic management of the school system and its accompanying theoretical critique are not in fact contending over the moral and political space. They represent instead adjacent but autonomous spheres of life and comportments of the person. The intellectual seeks in various ways to endow his life with a pervasive meaning, and thus to find unity within himself, with his fellow man and with the cosmos.
