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The Left Case for Great Books | The Point Magazine

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A great-books model at the undergraduate level is, in fact, so consonant with Freire’s radical critique that it represents a far better path forward for a left-wing vision of education than virtually anything else currently on offer in the United States.

The American left is a pretty cerebral lot: it contains a lot of grad students, underemployed humanities majors and hyper-literate autodidacts, and this educational glut is often grounds for criticism. We are, according to the usual line, too much in our own heads, too busy building castles in the air to relate to people on the ground. But despite our eggheaded reputation, the American left has failed to articulate a broad and unified vision for education. We are generally successful at toeing a line on issues of policy—robust funding for public education, opposition to charter schools, strong

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