Last paper was a topic teacher picked regarding Ken Robinson and education, then he also added Paulo Freire to the mix. That was the idea I got from the limited reading I did about Freire...he wanted the line blurred between adults and children. So I added that to my paper. Referenced an article by Dennis Prager and the left's infatuation with the thoughts of children.
Great little essay by Dennis Prager recently: Why the Left Doesn't Care about Bad Economic News:
They don't care because the left is not interested in prosperity; the left is interested in inequality and in the environment. Furthermore, the worse the economic situation, the more voters are likely to vote Democrat. The worse the economic situation, the greater the number of people receiving government assistance; the greater the number of people receiving government assistance, the greater the number of people who will vote Democrat.
The Left's strategy actually has a name: Cloward-Piven. The cure for liberalism's failures is always more liberalism! More government!
Therefore, the task is to manufacture more of those failures that only Progressivism can cure!
Indeed, it's likely that Obama's current "immigration crisis" is an example of applied Cloward-Piven. Congress wouldn't act, so the Pied Piper of Chicago and Washington summoned the lemmings across the Rio Grande! Voila! A crisis for government to solve!
Some thoughts. Good luck on the course!