Auckland University goes full communist
Their education department also loves communist educator Paulo Freire
You may have read my first post on Cambridge University and how they have fully embraced communist educator Paulo Freire. You would have seen how absolutely insane Freire is and also how much Cambridge University loves him - putting up a statue of him, organising a 2 week festival to celebrate him, the head of Education Faculty describing him as showing us the way forward. It’s hard to believe but it’s (sad but) true.
Well it's not just Cambridge University. I'm afraid, Auckland University is also in on the action. I mean, which university isn’t at this point?
AWA: Academic Writing at Auckland
Title: Paulo Freire's main ideas
Analysis essay: Analysis essays build and support a position and argument through critical analysis of an object of study using broader concepts.
Level: Second year
Description: Provide a critical overview of Paulo Freire's main educational ideas, and explain how he considered education to have the power to transform society.
If you look through the academic writing examples there is only one education ‘expert’ (lol) mentioned by name and only one education textbook. And or course, it's our old friend Paulo Freire and his (in)famous book The Pedagogy of the Oppressed. What else would it be in woke New Zealand? Here's a quick excerpt to remind you what it's all about.
Cultural action, as historical action, is an instrument for superseding the dominant alienated and alienating culture. In this sense, every authentic revolution is a cultural revolution.
- Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1970), Paulo Freire (emphasis mine)
That’s the same author and book used by Auckland University to train teachers calling for a cultural revolution (in the footsteps of Mao). And here's some more Freire in case you weren’t aware how nutty he was.
This Easter, which results in the changing of consciousness, must be existentially experienced. The real Easter is not commemorative rhetoric. It is praxis; it is historical involvement. The old Easter of rhetoric is dead—with no hope of resurrection. It is only in the authenticity of historical praxis that Easter becomes the death that makes life possible. But the bourgeois world view, basically necrophiliac (death-loving) and therefore static, is unable to accept this supremely biophiliac (life-loving) experience of Easter. The bourgeois mentality—which is far more than just a convenient abstraction—kills the profound historical dynamism of Easter and turns it into no more than a date on the calendar.
- The Politics of Education (1985), Paulo Freire (emphasis mine)
What a loon! I keep re-using that quote as I think it’s his best. As I love to say, in a sane world he'd be straight to the asylum but in today's clown world he's one of the most influential educators of all time and his book The Pedagogy of the Oppressed is the most cited education textbook in history.
I hate to break it to you but New Zealand has been churning out hoards of radicalised woke communist teachers who see their main job (actually religious obligation) as indoctrinating children into being woke communists rather than teaching them useful things. And they’ve been doing this for over a decade. This is why the New Zealand Labour Party feels confident putting out national education standards that are entirely based on Freire's ideas of indoctrination (known as critical pedagogy). They've already put the work in and know they have the numbers.
If your children have a teacher who's under 40, I would highly recommend looking into what they're teaching them. You might be shocked at what you learn. A lot of parents were when remote teaching happened under the COVID response and they actually saw what was being taught. I'll talk about some of the hideous things teachers have been up to recently in a later post and what to look out for at your own school.
In the meantime, good luck, New Zealand - you're definitely going to need it.