Paulo Freire
Freire believed education to be a political act that could not be divorced from pedagogy.  Freire defined this as a main tenet of critical pedagogy.  Teachers and students must be made aware of the "politics" that surround education.  The way students are taught and what they are taught serves a political agenda.  Teachers, themselves, have political notions they bring into the classroom (Kincheloe, 2008).