Hey friends, welcome back to the new Discourses podcast, James Lindsay. I'm doing this huge series

on critical education theory, also known as critical pedagogy, pedagogy being a theory of education,

and I'm trying to break it down for you, and you will realize that I've had to take a couple

of diversions from this project. This is going to continue, but this is actually a weird kind of

diversion, kind of like the groomer school series that I did, which by the way, if you care about what's

going on in education, you want to know what's going on in education, you need to go listen to the

groomer schools. What I've been doing for the main stay series is to follow, allegedly follow this

book, and then the books it recommends to go through. But what's happening is I'm stuck in the 70s and 80s,

and I'm going to be for a while to do that. And we do need to know that history. We do need

to know that philosophy. And if we had time to spare, I would just take my sweet time, and we would

do this in order, and we would develop it out in a neat, clean series, but we don't have time to spare.

We've got to fix education because it's not in a good place. So I'm going to do this podcast in

another one soon. I'm going to kind of bounce back and forth between more modern stuff, where you're going to

hear about terms that you are encountering when you show up to look at your kids curriculum, when you're

looking into what the schools are doing or teaching or what they claim. And then otherwise, I'm going to go back

and forth into the deep old theories. You can know where it comes from and what it's about. And we're going to

kind of build this out in a weird kind of non-linear and organic fashion. This sound like a weirdo leftist or

something. But the problem is that I need people to understand the old stuff, but I need people to have

points of contact and to be able to stand up and start doing something useful. And the other thing I need is

for myself to have an answer to the questions that I keep getting. Do you have any resources about

culturally relevant teaching? No, I don't. So I better make one. Do you have any resources about

social-emotional learning? No, I don't. So I better make one. And the idea that it's probably going to

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