To say Freire “Marxified” education isn’t to say that Freire injected Marxist ideas into education, and it is also not to say that Freire adapted education into a form of Marxist indoctrination, as we’d usually understand it. Freire changed the theory of education (pedagogy) itself into a Marxist theory of pedagogy. He even changed what it means to be educated (or literate) at all in the same way. Freire created a Marxist Theory of knowing that runs beneath his entire theory of education, and he built a Marxist praxis of thought reform around it. That is his legacy.
