His methods of learning, known as ‘critical pedagogy,’ are now ubiquitous in teachers’ training, making Freire one of the most influential men you’ve never heard of.
The attempt to ‘deconstruct and delegitimize’ maths as a deviously encoded form of white Western colonial supremacism is yet another attempt to do the same to the entirety of Western society itself.
When a false ideology seeks to conquer reality, it has to pretend words are more real than the actual things they (supposedly) refer to.
The UK’s Prevent labeled Shakespeare, Tennyson, Conrad, Chesterton, Tolkien, Chaucer, Kipling, and Milton “key texts” for “white nationalists.” Sir Kenneth Clark’s 1960s BBC TV documentary series “Civilization” was also named and shamed.
The greenness of youth used to be viewed as a character defect, to be ironed out over time, on the basic human principle that, with experience, comes wisdom.
Every single person on planet earth belongs to an ethnic minority, considered globally; it is only within a specific local context that any of them can be considered ethnic majorities.
Let us seek to banish Hermes and his associates back towards the margins where they rightly belong before the maenads one day end up coming for us all.