TY - JOUR N2 - Public education is educating influence of wide range media on political beliefs, worldviews and patterns of the everyday life of the audience, and of the potential electorate. The public intellectuals (the Henry A. Giroux concept), significant and respected experts (academics, journalists, politicians) play a special role. The article contains the presentation and analysis of the reaction of American public intellectuals to the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States – from the perspective of critical-emancipatory pedagogy. These are extremely critical to the consequences of D. Trump's choice: Ken Wilber's, Henry A. Giroux’s, Noam Chomsky’s, and several authors in the Berkeley Review of Education 2017/1 publications and speeches are recalled. The author concludes that Poland no longer has to imitate America, because in authoritarian drift (turn) it is ahead of it. L1 - http://www.journals.pan.pl/Content/110494/PDF-MASTER/N_3_17-05-Kwiecinski.pdf L2 - http://www.journals.pan.pl/Content/110494 PY - 2017 IS - No 3 EP - 70 KW - public education KW - public intellectuals KW - hypothesis of self-development of levels of human consciousness auto-revision KW - “paranoid state” KW - victorious march of neo-liberalism KW - need for critical literacy KW - Poland as a leader A1 - Kwieciński, Zbigniew PB - Biuro Upowszechniania i Promocji Nauki PAN DA - 2017.09.30 T1 - Public education in wobbly democration. From the perspective critical-emancipatory pedagogy SP - 57 UR - http://www.journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/110494 T2 - Nauka ER -