A teacher and philosophical anarchist reflects on schools’ imposed language – I have two confessions to make; First, I am part of the state system: I am a teacher, inculcating society’s rules in this sociocultural context since the mid-1990s. I entered the world of education with the notion that it could empower others. I’d worked with younger students, those who had fallen by the wayside, or perhaps more appropriately, those who had been failed by the system. I had the belief that I could change the system, especially as an academic. Yet the system appears exceedingly averse to change.