Critical Education Violates the First Amendment

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🗓️ 1 August 2022

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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 87 Critical Education Theory Series, Part 18 Critical Pedagogy in our public schools unambiguously violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. The reason is simple. As Critical Pedagogues themselves say, it has ambitions that can only be framed in religious terms, describes a fundamental concept of man and the world, and gives rise to duties of conscience. According to well-established First Amendment law (https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/clr/vol74/iss3/4/) in the United States, that violates the Establishment Clause. The argument is simple. The conception of man and the world it forwards is not the self-evident base of liberal society, which is by definition secular in this way; it is otherwise. It is the Hegelian-Marxist conception of a world that is transformed into its intended utopian state (literally, "the Kingdom of God on Earth") by the morally obligated and willful activity of man undertaken with a specific belief, intention, and set of practices. It is a world that demands to be transformed into its ideal state by specific means in accordance with specific beliefs about its organization and operation with "conscientized" man as its intentional transformer. Join host James Lindsay for this episode of the New Discourses Podcast where he makes the argument, neat as neat. Support New Discourses: paypal.me/newdiscourses newdiscourses.locals.com/support patreon.com/newdiscourses subscribestar.com/newdiscourses youtube.com/channel/UC9K5PLkj0N_b9JTPdSRwPkg/join Website: https://newdiscourses.com Follow: facebook.com/newdiscourses twitter.com/NewDiscourses instagram.com/newdiscourses https://newdiscourses.locals.com pinterest.com/newdiscourses linkedin.com/company/newdiscourses minds.com/newdiscourses reddit.com/r/NewDiscourses © 2022 New Discourses. All rights reserved.

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0:00.0	Hey there everyone, welcome to another exciting episode of the new Discourses Podcast.
0:24.0	This is James Lindsay.
0:25.0	I'm going to give you a short summary of a particular topic, kind of a one-off.
0:29.9	And today, what we're going to actually discuss is whether or not critical education,
0:34.6	which is going to take an over-education entirely, pillow for eight days education system
0:38.8	in particular, whether or not that constitutes a first amendment violation in the United
0:43.4	States.
0:44.4	Now, obviously, the establishment clause of the first amendment says that the government
0:48.4	of the United States will not establish, in other words, will not really promote a religion
0:53.4	through its official channels, but I think that when we look at what critical pedagogy,
0:58.1	as it's called, or critical education theory represents, when we look back to the person
1:03.4	it's based off of, who is this character, this Brazilian pillow friday, it becomes impossible
1:09.4	to conclude that he taught anything other than a religion that our schools are now endorsing
1:15.6	by teaching his methods throughout our schools.
1:20.1	So I got to be tight with this, and there's a lot to say to kind of make the case, but
1:27.0	the religious tone, what I'm focusing on is this book, The Politics of Education, that
1:30.9	I've been spending a lot of time with, which friday published in 1985, it is the book
1:36.9	that actually got him recognized in the US education system, it is the book that brought
1:42.5	his other works to the center of North American education, any education in the United States.
1:48.8	And the religious tone in this book is so explicit and so central to what friday's doing,
1:54.5	that his kind of disciple and evangelist, Henry Giroux, in the foreword that he wrote
1:59.0	to the book, actually remarks that what friday is describing here is a permanent prophetic
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