This volume discusses how Slavoj Zizek thinks and writes, and explains his key influences, which include a Marxist commitment to liberation within a capitalist society, Lacanian psychoanalytical thinking about how we are structured in and through practice, and Hegelian discursive practices to engage different understandings and perspectives. Contrary to the Marxist dictum,'they know not what they do', Zizek exclaims 'we do know what we do, but still do it!'. Together, these influences form a critical pedagogy; a way of engaging us in thinking about education without set or prescribed answers, but questions which take us on intellectual rollercoasters of inquiry about what education might be and therefore what it might become. This Brief summarises the key contributions that Zizek makes within this trajectory.