Paulo Freire's Schools

New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 7
Anywhere in North America, chances are our kids go to Paulo Freire's schools. Who is Paulo Freire? Paulo Freire is a Brazilian Marxist and Liberation Theologian who remade literacy education according to his ideological programs (newdiscourses....) and thereby ruined it. His ideas were imported to North America in the 1980s and have been steadily colonizing education ever since. Now, his work has been so influential on the "Critical Pedagogy" (or, "Critical Education Theory") movement that virtually all teachers are trained in his ideas and implement them in classrooms across the nation. In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay breaks down what this unfortunate turn in education means for schools and our kids.
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[@abramgaller2037]

The worst aspect of the Paulo Freire schools is that they impart no vocational or academic skill.

[@highlightning6693]

A legitimate recipe for societal catastrophe. I just have to wonder how long it will take before no machines can be built and the infrastructure begins totally collapsing?

[@abramgaller2037]

@@highlightning6693 It could happen in as little as twenty years.

[@carolynscott9007]

No vocational or academic skill? His work was literacy. I'm reading the book now, it's free online.

[@abramgaller2037]

@@carolynscott9007 His work was revolution, literacy is an empty word.

[@carolynscott9007]

@@abramgaller2037 In the context of his lifetime, place, it was revolutionary to teach poor people how to read and write. From my understanding of the book, he worked WITH the people, listened to them and provided awareness. He was very poor when young and could relate to the poor. He was able to become educated and wanted other poor people to know they could be too.

[@paulishism]

Does anybody else find it weird when childless adults talk about "our children"?

[@olindblo]

I don’t, since parenting should be communal labour anyway and not atomised or individualised.

[@metalrules1135]

I work on a college campus and I see these kids as Red Guards waiting to be mobilized. They will be called something different, they will have a different version of the Four Olds, but they are chomping at the bit to tear society to pieces.

[@sherbear8286]

So helpful, James. Don’t ever stop.

[@JeffreySmith1967]

James, I live in Miami-Dade so there are a lot of people from South America. One of my neighbors is Brazilian. We started talking today and things went to the state of things in the world. I brought up Paulo and at first he had no idea what I was talking about, I got the phone out so he could see the name. The profanities that came from his mouth were shocking. He confirmed that this guy was so instrumental in the destruction of the Brazilian education system and the Brazilian way of life. Paulo influence is one of the reasons why my neighbor and his wife immigrated to the US. Thanks for your content, I try to share these ideas with whoever will listen.

[@BRDGS]

eternally grateful for you james

[@shedactivist]

As I go through this playlist I am getting more and more frightened by what is happening to our society

[@allenvaughan1]

Your Bullet videos should direct people to listen to your longer and more detailed podcasts, where their heads will explode!

[@tharkun21280]

This is an EXCELLENT suggestion.

[@stormysmurf]

Hopefully so! What I love is many in the comments were asking James to do this..... and be did it!

[@ppt2038]

Thank You for sharing this. I am having my Son listen to these

[@courtroonegg]

I'm so glad I went to school when it was sane.

[@ajiwa69]

I've also noticed the use of the term "scholars" in place of students

[@dgh5760]

Goes well with "caregivers" instead of parents.

[@Objectivityiskey]

1 year later and more relevant that when released. James you are more than adequate, you are amazing!!! Thank you for your intellectual aptitude! This is just proof your view of objective reality is keen. continue... Please! 😉😉

[@P4hs]

1:02 - "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" - Keystone text in every college of education in America. 1:53 - Its 4 elements: . . . . 3:23 - 1. Marxified education - Ed as bourgeois private property; goal is to awaken a class consciousness. . . . . 6:01 - 2. Generative themes - "Slum," "Struggle," "Present," "Slave," "oppression," "Starvation," "Misery," "Justice". . . . . 8:11 - 3. Codification & deCodification- Step 1: Show it. Step 2: Problematize it. Step 3: DeCodify it to make it relevant to Oneself. . . . . 9:50 - 4. Dialogical model (Egalitarian classrooms) - In contrast to the Banking model of Ed.

[@peggyjames936]

In the languages that Paulo Freire was teaching in (Spanish and Portuguese), words are composed syllabically. This means that in writing, words can be constructed by linking syllables together. In contrast, languages like English construct the written word by linking together letters and combinations of letters. Paulo Freire found that by using only 17 syllables, his (adult) Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking students could learn to read their own languages in only about 30 days. Since, at the phonetic level, syllables could be used to generate words, Friere called them "generative syllables." Please explain how it would be possible to teach students to read and write a language like English using Freire's method. Maybe it could be done, but I can't imagine how.

[@toddk2737]

Love your videos. They're so depressing.

[@allenvaughan1]

I think your discussion of the shift of teacher-student to "educator-learner" should've been the first bullet point mentioned. It would've given the listener a more grounded framework to begin to understand the mechanics- and the grooming which displaces the old paradigm. Excellent materials, but condensed almost to the point of losing the frightening outcomes. Finally, you need a "call to action" (sorry if that "triggers" some of the Marxian ideology!) so that induces the listener to dig a little deeper, and hopefully listen to your other podcasts-and subscribe to your channel.

[@anhumblemessengerofthelawo3858]

_moths fly into the light_

[@cbashe]

I read Pedagogy of the Oppressed in my 20's mainly to get an understanding on the theory behind Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed, I was a theatre student at the time and Boal's work was very influential. Personally I got nothing from PO, and Boal's work turned out to be deeply simplistic and frankly devisive in my limited experience. I saw a theatre company split and fold because the use of Boal's Forum Theatre destroyed the trust between management and service user group. And anecdotally the work didn't stand up in Northern Ireland trying to apply itself to the sectarian conflict there. I'm curious to look back into it, especially now that all arts institutions in the UK have been hijacked by wokeness, critical theory, social justice issues and are slowly killing themselves as audiences and professionals turn away.

[@henriquesousa4994]

These bullets are gold. It saves time for those who are somewhat familiar with your content, and is presentable to the people who may not initially agree with the overall point being made. Thank you! By the way, for y'all English-speaking people, "Freire" if pronounced as if the R was a soft T, like in "beat it".

[@interestedpart2650]

Excellent! ❤💪

[@xaverhartig526]

Any German student here who knows how this applies to our schools?

[@mmille10]

What's really striking about this is how Freire ignores the link between skill and real, tangible value creation, as if that doesn't really exist, and how this is what leads to the wealth that the educated have. In his view, there's just "the educated" club, which has hoarded some benefits, and the task of his program is to have the uneducated conquer the educated, for the purpose of having the uneducated control the means of education (production). This is the literal implementation of "ignorance is bliss." Only it's not, as we are going to find out...

[@TheAzureNightmare]

Did Paulo get arrested for Sexual Predation or stuff like that?

[@stevenlightfoot6479]

So good, thanks!

[@EmperorsNewWardrobe]

Freire’s approach sounds very sensible to start with, of making education relatable to an underprivileged audience. To then use that as a frame for oppressor and oppressed classes is clearly problematic, if I have understood that all correctly

[@michaellin7165]

Same in China. Thinking back, at least Chinese and History classes were taught thru Marx lens. "Today we will learn a poem written a thousand years ago, the poet was poor, the poem talks about the poor peasant, their class struggle, how the peasant view the landlord as a rat..." "Today we will talk about the revolution that ended X dynasty and started Y dynasty, the peasant class, and the ruling, their contradiction, the repression, the class struggle..."

[@maxstirner4197]

Please read "the false principle of our education" by Max Stirner

[@_nebulousthoughts]

How is educator and learner not any less of a power differential?

[@joshuabaker8304]

It means the ministry of magic is interfering in Hogwarts business !!!

[@praetentious2925]

I worry our schools don’t do enough to educate our kids about racism.

[@Nordic_Sky]

Haha, that's so funny. If only.

[@praetentious2925]

@@Nordic_Sky what do you mean?

[@courtroonegg]

Ok, groomer.

[@Nordic_Sky]

@@praetentious2925 The schools are already full of all the "anti-racism" crap, which is just a veiled argument for more racial preferences and redistribution to favored groups. They certainly don't need any more of this nonsense. Racism is a non-entity in the US.

[@praetentious2925]

@@Nordic_Sky “racism is a non entity in the us” is an obviously false statement. You did see over last weekend there was a racist inspired mass murder? Two?