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The Theft of Education

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🗓️ 9 November 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 26 Education is being stolen from our kids and our society. In fact, for the most part, it has been stolen already. The way it's being and been done is through using something that is known as the "generative themes" approach, which derives from the work of the Marxist educator Paulo Freire. Generative themes are supposed to generate particular kinds of political conversations in the context of presenting some other kind of educational lesson. In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay shares (with permission) Jennifer McWilliams's example (https://www.jennifermcwilliamsconsulting.com/) of a seemingly benign and innocuous second-grade word problem in mathematics class to show how a simple subtraction lesson can be turned into any number of political conversations about poverty, race, sex, gender, sexuality, family, parental authority, and environmental issues or climate change by a manipulative teacher-activist using the Freirean generative themes approach. This is what we are up against. This needs to stop. 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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0:00.0

Hello everyone, this is James Lindsay and you are listening to new discourses Bullets.

0:16.5

Today I want to give you a short explanation of how they actually go about transforming

0:20.6

education.

0:21.6

You see, our education system has been transformed, in fact, I think our education system has

0:26.1

been stolen from our children and our society.

0:29.5

By activists who want to repurpose education in the most kind of hidden or surreptitious

0:34.6

way into something else, in fact, into a radicalization program in terms of woke politics.

0:41.6

So this is what we do on new discourses Bullets is summarize something in a short bullet point

0:46.3

fashion, one topic you need to understand about woke Marxism, and I want you to understand

0:50.7

how they transform education, and I mean how they do this, so that you are going to be able

0:56.4

to start helping or figuring out how you might actually get this stopped, because it's

1:02.9

very difficult.

1:03.9

You could ask to see the curriculum, the curriculum is going to look fine.

1:07.9

The reason is that they're using what are called a friar and generative themes approach.

1:12.8

What they want to do is they want to generate particular conversations, political conversations,

1:17.5

and then guide them to particular answers, particular ways of thinking about issues,

1:23.5

and they can use any lesson at all.

1:25.4

Polo Ferry, who was a Brazilian Marxist, who designed this approach in the 1960s, 1970s

1:31.7

and 1980s, what he did was redesigned reading programs.

1:37.2

He used the generative themes method, he called it, to what he did was he interviewed the

1:43.7

people he was going to teach, and he to teach to read specifically.

1:48.7

And he found out words that were kind of radicalizing or triggering words, and he called

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