In this week’s Pope Center Clarion Call, my colleague Jay Schalin writes about the idea of “social-justice teaching” that Obama’s friend William Ayers has been promoting.

This Marxian twaddle has taken root in American education schools. Ten years ago, Heather Mac Donald wrote about it in her wonderful essay “Why Johnny’s Teacher Can’t Teach.”

What results can we expect from “social-justice teaching”? Will it radicalize students and teachers, building momentum for the overthrow of “the oppressors” as Ayers and his many allies desire? The far more likely result is that poor students who need to learn the fundamentals of language, math, science, and so on will have precious class time wasted.

One might conclude that “social-justice teaching” is part of (as Don Luskin puts it) “The Conspiracy to Keep You Poor and Stupid”. Angry-but-ignorant people are far more useful to Marxist revolutionaries than are people who are gainfully employed and enjoying the increasing prosperity that capitalism makes possible.