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

by James Lindsay

This is because Paulo Freire’s Critical Pedagogy is an abject anti-educational failure that should be ripped out of our Pre-K–12 schools and colleges of education as soon and as thoroughly as possible. Indeed, it never should have been adopted in the first place, and the people who saw to it that it was should be held accountable for the unbelievable damage it has caused in the intervening forty years. These ideas were terrible and unfounded when they were written down in the 1960s and when they were accepted in North America in the 1980s, and they haven’t improved one iota in the intervening decades. Their adoption and inclusion in North American colleges of education first, and primary and secondary schools second, should be considered one of the greatest academic scandals in the history of the world. Indeed, the “Critical” theft of education should be considered nothing short of a crime against humanity.