Lesson 1 · Listen
How do we teach?
How do we learn?
Critical.education takes one difficult question at a time and builds a full inquiry around it: the scholarship, the genealogy, the evidence, the strongest objections, and a reading path you can actually follow.
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Lesson 2 · Read
Critical Pedagogy
How education came to be understood as a political act, and what follows for anyone who teaches, studies, or pays for a school.
If every classroom distributes authority, attention, and the right to speak, what would it mean to teach in a way that widens thought instead of closing it?
42 min read · 16 sections · 5 figures · 12 thinkers
Enter the inquiry →- Freire's banking model and problem-posing education, in his own terms.
- A genealogy from the Frankfurt School and Gramsci to bell hooks and Biesta.
- The cognitive-science counterargument, presented at full strength.
Lesson 3 · Listen again
The students' own words
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Lesson 4 · Read again
What Makes a Great Teacher?
Authority, attention, care, and the conditions under which learning becomes unavoidable.
When a student remembers a teacher twenty years later, what did they actually learn: a body of knowledge, or a way of being in the world?
40 min read · 13 sections · 5 figures · 12 thinkers
Enter the inquiry →- Student voices on presence, authentic connection, and generative AI.
- Lee Shulman's pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) and the architecture of craft.
- The dialectic between intellectual rigour and transformative care.
Lesson 5 · The masters were teachersComing soon
Art school as a pedagogy
This lesson on art and teaching is not published yet. It is still being written; the artwork and facts below are a preview.
Wassily Kandinsky
Appointed to the Bauhaus in Weimar in June 1922; taught there until the school closed in Berlin in 1933.
Bauhaus KooperationPaul Klee
His Pädagogisches Skizzenbuch (Pedagogical Sketchbook) appeared in 1925 as the second volume of the Bauhaus books.
Bauhaus Kooperation
Every room rests on sources you can check.
Every inquiry closes with its complete bibliography and a reading path in three levels.