Writing in City Journal, Sol Stern gives one more reason why U.S. teacher colleges are so dreadful: the entrenched influence of Brazilian Marxist Paulo Freire and, in particular, the pervasive assigning to students of his Pedagogy of the Oppressed.

Stern shows how leftist professors latched on to Freire’s proclamation that there can be “no such thing as a neutral education,” using it to vindicate their indoctrinating of students in anti-American radicalism and, as one follower of Freire advocated, transforming youth into ”‘actors in the struggle for social justice.’”

Set against the current political palaver about the need for quality of teaching in K-12 classrooms, it is all the more discordant to learn of the place of honor accorded to Freire’s retrograde Marxist bromides in today’s schools of education.