Saturday, 15. August 2009
All schools should teach about Paulo Freire10:04:25 PM
I find it to be a deep shame that I have
only just now come upon the work of Paulo Freire.
Freire saw education as a freeing, liberating
process when undertaken honestly. This "true education"
is not the top down process of teachers dictating to students, but instead
an interactive process where teachers work with students to help them realize
new truths. He saw education as a freeing, liberating activity, and
specifically felt that it was a necessary tool for combating cultural oppression.
Here's just one great quote from Freire's work Pedagogy of the Oppressed, it's one of the more philosophical rather then focused purely on teaching:
Education as the practice of freedom -- as opposed to education as the practice of domination -- denies that man is abstract, isolated, independent and unattached to the world; it also denies that the world exists as a reality apart from people. Authentic reflection considers neither abstract man nor the world without people, but people in their relations with the world. In these relations consciousness and world are simultaneous: consciousness neither precedes the world nor follows it.
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