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Paulo Freire’s “Critical” Method of Education | James Lindsay

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🗓️ 31 October 2022

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

The Marxification of Education Workshop, Session 2 How on Earth did education get so messed up and stolen from our society and our kids? While the critical turn in education enabled this "transformation" of our education system, the crucial piece that allowed it to happen is the work of a Brazilian Marxist by the name of Paulo Freire. Paulo Freire completely transformed education, not least by Marxifying it. That is, in addition to creating the conditions to swap out actual education for political education, Freire structured his understanding of education and knowledge itself as a Marxist Theory of knowing and being educated. Treating these as a special kind of bourgeois private property, Freire paved the way to abolish education entirely and to reimagine it as a system of brainwashing learners into critical Marxist consciousness. Here, New Discourses Founder James Lindsay summarizes this transformation of education itself in this second of four presentations on the Marxification of Education delivered in late July 2022 in Arlington, Virginia, on location in the now-famous Loudoun County, ground zero for the fight for America's schools. As a result of the research that produced this lecture series, and this lecture in particular, Lindsay has written a detailed and accessible book expanding on these themes considerably, titled The Marxification of Education, which is available for preorder now: https://amzn.to/3RYZ0tY Session 1: https://newdiscourses.com/2022/10/the-critical-turn-in-education/ Session 3: https://newdiscourses.com/2022/11/groomer-schools/ Session 4: https://newdiscourses.com/2022/11/social-emotional-learning-sel/ Support New Discourses: https://newdiscourses.com/support Subscribe to New Discourses on other platforms: https://newdiscourses.com/subscribe Follow James Lindsay: https://linktr.ee/conceptualjames © 2022 New Discourses. All rights reserved.

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Now that the easy lecture is over, we can start.

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You think I'm joking?

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Actually, you don't, that's right.

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You don't.

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No, we're going to dive in to kind of.

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It turns out this is, I don't want you to feel intimidated by this.

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It's like you're at a magic convention.

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I really mean it.

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It's like you're at a magic convention.

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And I'm up here doing magic tricks or whatever, except I'm not.

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I'm actually explaining the magic trick.

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So I have to show you the magic trick.

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And I explain the magic trick.

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And you still, like, your fingers aren't coordinated enough

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to like flip the card over or whatever.

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And it's actually, I'm not, it's much simpler than it seems.

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You just stick with it a little bit and you can understand it.

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It's not profound.

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These guys came up with a series of little tricks.

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If you read their books, all their books are the same book.

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Just over and over and over again.

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The hard part is that they use lots of mysterious language.

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