Quotes on knowledge:

Knowledge, once it is defined, taught and used as a "thing made", is dead.  It has been forced to give up that which "really exists": its nature when it is a thing in the making, continuosly evolving through our understanding of the world and our own bodies' experience of and participation in that world.

When taught and used as a thing made, knowledge, the trafficked commodity of educators and producers of educational media, becomes nothing more than the decomposed by-product of something that has already happened to us. What has already happened was once very much alive: the thinking-feeling, the embodies sensation of making sense, the lived experience of our learning selves that make the thing we call knowledge. Thinking and feeling our selves as they make sense is more than merely the sensation of knowledge in the making. It is a sensing of our selves in the making, and is that not the root of what we call learning? italics in original (p. 1)

Ellsworth, E. (2005). Places of learning. New York: Routledge Falmer.

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Knowledge is not some sort of object that is locked inside a head or that is lying in pools out in the world; rather, knowledge is a potential to action - meaning that knowledge is embodied (there must be an actor) and situated (there must be a context for the action). Bodies know, and that's what makes them part of grander knowing bodies.  Knowledge, then, is about relationship. p.66 italics in original.

Davis, B., Sumara, D., & Luce-Kapler, R. (2008). Engaging minds: Changing teaching in complex times. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge.

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"Knowledge derives from ... movements". p.39.

Knowledge does not reflect a real external world that it resembles via mimesis, but rather a real interior world, the coherence and continuity of which it helps to ensure. What a beautiful move, apparently sacrificing resemblance at each stage only to settle again on the same meaning, which remains intact through sets of rapid transformations. The discovery of this strange and contradictory behavior is worthy of the discovery of a forest able to create its own soil. p. 58.

Latour, B. (1999). Pandora's hope: Essays on the reality of science studies. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

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Don't let school interfere with your education

Mark Twain