The Marxification of Education: Paulo Freire's Critical Marxism and the Theft of Education

by James Lindsay

Conscientization Works But Does Not Educate A more accurate presentation of this three-step process would be: (1) data-mining the students by one method or another to discover what might radicalize them; (2) presenting radicalizing material through the established curriculum; and (3) grooming students’ responses to this material to ensure it radicalizes them into Marxist “critical consciousness.” That is, it is a process of thought reform. Recall what the researchers investigating Freirean approach saw in Nigeria: Stage Two: The Selection of Words from The Discovered Vocabulary From the discussions of the learners, the Generative Words written by the team of facilitators were: resources, money, abundance, crude oil, stealing, pocket, begging, plenty, poverty, suffering, frustration, crying, hunger, crisis, dying, death. These words were later depicted in pictorial form showing the concrete realities and situations in the lives of the people. The pictorial display provoked an emotional state of pity and anger among the discussants, some of them could not talk, while most of them were moved to tears asking the question: Why! Why! Why! Why!