In open societies censorship of critical thought takes the form of omission

Evidence

Whereas students in the Third World and other nations struggling with totalitarian regimes would risk their freedom, if not their lives, to read Paulo Freire, in our so-called open societies his work suffers from a more sophisticated form of censorship: omission. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 26

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels the banking model’s core move: knowledge selection that quietly keeps out the transformative. Relevant to redesigning any curriculum. — connects to: Zeitschrift editors censored Adorno’s Marxian vocabulary to avoid appearing doctrinaire — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 355
• SEED: Angle: what gets silently omitted from syllabi is itself an exercise of power — a concrete redesign criterion when auditing a learning situation.