Education is never neutral, and as Howard Zinn reminds us, “you cannot be neutral in a moving train.” Schools can either reproduce inequality or serve as spaces for critical thinking and transformation. In this episode, I talk about our responsibility as educators to foster class consciousness as we teach about capitalism and wealth inequality. We urgently need to teach class consciousness if we want our students to defend our democracy and create the world we want to see.

Books mentioned in this episode:

* James W. Loewen’s Lies My Teacher Told Me

* Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States

* Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed

* Jonathan Kozol’s Savage Inequalities

* Paul Willis’ Learning to Labour: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs

I also mentioned Richard D. Wolff’s podcast Economic Update

Music

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