Who Is the Council? The Law in the Classroom

in the beginning, a class of children, a schoolteacher. How to move from chatter to speech? From the classroom as space to the classroom as a place? How to transition from a wild space where the law of the jungle prevails to a collective living space where each can exist as an “I”? At the heart of this remarkable human machine that is the institutional class, the cooperative council is the law. With shared speech and power, the classroom becomes a society.