#paulo friere

[all-keikaku-aizen]

​"When education is not liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor."

— Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

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[vivrante]

“Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other”

Paulo Friere, on the “banking” concept of education, in which the scope of action allowed to students extends only as far as receiving, filing, and storing deposits.

[karinyosa]

"if we're going to heal from the trauma of being treated unequally, we have to be radical. we have to always be criticizing ourselves and always attending to our own needs. we have to always be criticizing others and always attending to their needs, at the same time. we have to stop assuming that we know what other people really think and want and acting accordingly."

elliot sang, live reading of pedagogy of the oppressed chapter 2

[molfodd]

paulo friere

[zestoftheday]

Any situation in which some individuals prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence. The means used are not important; to alienate human beings from their own decision-making is to change them into objects.

Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

[peregrino52]

Libros que marcan (7): PEDAGOGÍA DEL OPRIMIDO

Tmp. máx. lect.: 7 min. La Pedagogía del Oprimido de Paulo Freire (1921-1997), es considerada por numerosos estudiosos e historiadores de las Ciencias de la Educación la más grande y universal obra de la Pedagogía del siglo XX. Fue escrita en los años 1968 y 1969 en Chile, país en el que Freire estaba exiliado. Tras el golpe de estado en Brasil que dio lugar a una dictadura militar (1964-1985),…

Libros que marcan (7): PEDAGOGÍA DEL OPRIMIDO

[karinyosa]

"at all stages of their liberation, the oppressed must see themselves as...engaged in the ontological and historical vocation of becoming more fully human."

paulo friere, pedagogy of the oppressed

[thewheelsofsteelareturning]

But they confuse freedom with the maintenance of the status quo; so that if conscientização threatens to place that status quo in question, it thereby seems to constitute a threat to freedom itself.

Paulo Friere from Pedagogy of the Oppressed This is why "political correctness"™ is seen as a threat to freedom of speech.