SEVENTH TASK

At the end of "Critical Theory and Educational Practice", Giroux states that "The point is that critical theory needs to be reformulated to provide the opportunity to both critique and elaborate its insights beyond the constraints and historical conditions under which they were firts generated" (p. 50). 

 How do you think Frankfurt School thoughts can be applied to today in our own culture?

As a teacher, I think Frankfurt school thoughts can be applied but there is no way to achieve its ideals thoroughly in our society. I totally agree that education is a tool to wake people up about the social and the economy order that makes people slaves in order to make money from them, which is called, capitalism.

As teachers, we should provide an education that makes people critical of this overwhelming society that takes their freedom and time. Schools shouldn’t be a place to train people for workforce, as capitalism yearns for, and different from that, education should develop students into critical thinkers in order to break chains that dominate us socially, economically, and politically, and to deliver humanity from a capitalist logic.

It’s horrible to know some institutions like school, family, culture, church and media work for capitalism as they promote its principles, and somehow they manipulate us to do what capitalism wants. That is why, a critical education speech is important to be promoted by teachers, as it makes people conscious about this hazard, and as a result, we could get human emancipation, which would mean, social and cultural change.