The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 76
Critical Education Theory Series, Part 12
This episode of the New Discourses Podcast continues into a fifth part a long miniseries exploring Paulo Freire’s landmark 1985 book The Politics of Education: Culture, Power, and Liberation, and it is embedded in the broader Critical Education Theory series here. In the previous part, James Lindsay presented the ideas in the first half of the sixth chapter, wherein we see how Freire Marxified education itself. The previous parts of this series, covering the earlier chapters of the book can be found here, here, here, and here.
In this episode, James takes up the more complex second half of chapter six, revealing how Freire’s “dialogical model” of education is, in fact, the birthplace of what he has elsewhere referred to as “Groomer Schools.” Join him to understand how Freire didn’t just Marxify education but also retooled pedagogy to amount to Marxist political grooming, which is far worse than mere indoctrination.
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Is there any way a text version could be made of these podcasts? I hate listening to political material but love reading it. I would happily pay for a Substack version.
Thanks for your thoughts.
Is it any wonder in all aspects of society , this poison has seeped in ? Anyone passing through our educational system has been brainwashed . Anyone doubt the big tech companies are filled with a bunch of ” commies “? By god , from their own admission , I didn’t make that up , nor that BLM head , Patrice Cullors , self proclaimed trained Marxist , actualy said most of the donors to BLM , were from guilty afraid white people . I mean she said these brain washed white people were guilty . Do they even care they have been Tawana Brawly bull shitted ? We are in deep trouble of being in the midst of a huge number of vichy Americans , ready to welcome the CCP , opening the gates for them to come in , with a bunch of corporations with their arms open .
This series has been immensely helpful and clarifying for this teacher. I was first introduced to these topics in Sam Blumenfeld’s The Whole Language/OBE Fraud, but James has taken these concepts and shined the light of truth on them.
When will Dr Lindsay focus his powers on the praxis of deprogramming the already-indoctrinated? The brainwashed youth are not bad apples that can be discarded; their hearts and minds must be redeemed, but how?
Here’s an old city-journal article on the subject from 2009 (the illustrations provide a sort of dark humor).
https://www.city-journal.org/html/pedagogy-oppressor-13168.html