Today, in the age of standardized testing, thinking and acting, reason and judgment have been thrown out the window just as teachers are increasingly being deskilled and forced to act as semi-robotic technicians good for little more than teaching for the test.

Young people refuse the notion that financialization defines the only acceptable definition of exchange, one that is based exclusively on the reductionist notion of buying and selling.

The present generation has been born into a throwaway society of consumers in which both goods and young people are increasingly objectified and disposable.

We need to remember that education can be both a basis for critical thought and a site for repression, which destroys thinking and leads to violence.

Public problems collapse into the limited and depoliticized register of private issues.

Schools resemble the culture of prisons.

The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing how to read the world.