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.
We are facing the possible tragedy of Europe’s demographic transformation into little more than the northernmost outpost of Islam—a tragedy which Pope Francis seems all too happy to embrace.
Yeats’ ghostly philosophy became a central theme in much of his most significant poetry. Many of his key works cannot be properly understood without knowledge of it.
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.
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.
