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

by James Lindsay

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! Notice the themes are largely relevant to the Nigerians’ lives in the sense that they expose suffering, misery, or a perception of injustice. When those concepts are then codified and fed back into the “generative” educational milieu, they do not induce education but calamity. Those emotional reactions are very useful for inducing people to cult adherence and to take urgent action, but they prove predictably terrible for fostering interest in education.