We need critical pedagogy now more than ever. As public education falls under the control of the elite, as more and more public services, including public education, become privatized, and as standards in education become strategically crafted to serve the needs of the market, critical pedagogy and the lessons that can be gleaned from the work of Paulo Freire are extremely pertinent. It is clear that public education is no longer a priority or a pillar of democracy worth preserving amongst our government, as Henry Giroux writes in the article "Lessons to be Learned from Paulo Freire as Education is Being Taken Over by the Mega Rich":
"The profound disdain for public education is evident not only in Obama's test-driven, privatized and charter school reform movement, but also in the hostile takeover of public education now taking place among the ultra-rich and hedge fund zombies, who get massive tax breaks from gaining control of charter schools. The public in education has now become the enemy of educational reform."
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What We Can Learn From Paulo Freire
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