Paulo Freire, born on the 19th of September in 1921, was a Brazilian philosopher and radical pedagogue most known for his 1968 work Pedagogy of the Oppressed. “Language is never neutral.”
Paulo was born in Recife, the capital of the northeastern Brazilian state of Pernambuco. Initially affluent, his family experienced hardship during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and Freire’s education suffered due to his own experiences with poverty and hunger.
Freire began working as a schoolteacher in the 1940s, beginning to serve as the director of the Pernambuco Department of Education and Culture in 1946. Due to the 1964 Brazilian coup d’état, where a military dictatorship was put in place with the support of the United States, Paulo Freire was exiled from his home country, an exile that lasted 16 years.
Freire then worked in Chile, until April 1969 when he accepted a temporary position at Harvard University. It was during this period, in 1968, that Freire published his most famous work, “Pedagogy of the Oppressed”.
In this text, Freire criticizes what he calls the “banking method” of education, wherein a teacher “deposits” knowledge into an empty vessel, the student, or “bank”. Instead, Freire calls upon teacher to engage in a more dialog-centric or creative education, one in which the suppressed experiences of the oppressed help create knowledge, fostering a social reality in which the marginalized are humanized.
Pedagogy of the Oppressed has since become the third most cited book in the social sciences, according to Elliott D. Green. As of 2000, the book had sold over 750,000 copies worldwide.
“Manipulation, sloganizing, depositing, regimentation, and prescription cannot be components of revolutionary praxis, precisely because they are the components of the praxis of domination.”
Paulo Freire
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Learned from a youtube that cats like it when u rub ur beard on them cause its rough like a cats tongue, so I tried it on my sisters cat and goddamn I’ve never seen that cat purr so loudly
I remember while back we had these little gnomes on our window near the sink, I’d talk to them when I was washing dishes or cooking and they helped me pass the time and made me feel less lonely. One day they disappeared and I asked my family where they went, no one had any fucking clue what the hell I was talking about
eventually I asked my sister about them after days of me being paranoid turns out she moved them but since she was working a weird shift I just didn’t see her for a while and couldn’t ask 
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Its crazy how big the RTS genre was in 90s even vidya games adapting tabletop games used rts as gameplay foundation instead of turn based,
What if the sea people were time travellers 😱😱😱
People are all fucked up growing the spiciest ffucking peppers they can and it’s just so boring to me, give me a more flavorful pepper, do some crazy ass cross breeding shit, give me a fucking cronenberged poblanchotle pepper
Mark Robinson shit is just pure kino
DONT CARE, STILL VOTING FOR JOE BUDDEN
do NOT spray goldbond on your ass
I literally don’t understand how people develop some of the interests that they do. My gf has become so obsessed with Alan wake that she’s now learning Finnish and it’s just like ??? i mean im encouraging it but it’s just incomprehensible to me. finnish, of all languages. Im a boring fucker
Apparently I talked about AOC in my sleep and now my mom thinks I’m a liberal
i didn’t know this until i heard it from the latest
brief but apparently the fash have also been accusing haitians in the US of eating geese?relevant all-time hexbear post. personally i applaud our revolutionary brethren in springfield for implementing the Goose Program
In mixed company I usually outflank everyone to the right. I get it is bad rhetorical form but most every normal has no defence against it. M4A? Of course I want Healthcare like the troops have. You support the troops don’t you? Police? They are overworked. They should patrol less and have mental health health checks done by the city instead. You support the cops don’t you? Taxing the rich? That’s capitlaism. They use the roads more so they should pay more. You belive in cpaitlaism don’t you? Wind and solar? We have the whole of the great state of Texas and you think that wasn’t god saying turn it into a sea of windmills and solar panels? You love America don’t you?
just spent 20 minutes wondering why these fucks from perth had a scottih accent before remembering the aussie city is named after the one in scotland
There’s a lot of evidence to suggest that early humans and neanderthals coexisted and even cohabitated and it makes me happy to imagine it being not just circumstantial but enthusiastic cohabitation (not even horny)
Like the period of coexistence lasted for estimates of thousands of years. You’re gonna tell me there were no cross-species duos getting up to mischief? Not one puny human kid who teamed up with the big neanderthal kid because they were both getting bullied? No Last Kingdom scenarios in which a child who was raised by the other group feels torn between these identities? Please
