What Paulo Freire thinks about education
Brazilian educator and philosopher (1921 to 1997), a founder of critical pedagogy, best known for Pedagogy of the Oppressed, which treats teaching as a political act of liberation.
Paulo Freire did not write this page.
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3 dated positions, c. 1968, in their own words. Our reading of what Paulo Freire has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsIn the banking concept of education, knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those whom they consider to know nothing.
↗Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Bloomsbury, 2014 edition; tr. Myra Bergman Ramos)books.google.com All 23 from this book
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Our readingThe banking approach to adult education will never propose that students critically consider reality
Their wordsThe banking approach to adult education, for example, will never propose to students that they critically consider reality.
↗Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Bloomsbury, 2014 edition; tr. Myra Bergman Ramos)books.google.com All 23 from this book
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Their wordsIts objective is to call the attention of true humanists to the fact that they cannot use banking educational methods in the pursuit of liberation, for they would only negate that very pursuit. Nor may a revolutionary society inherit these methods from an oppressor society.
↗Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Bloomsbury, 2014 edition; tr. Myra Bergman Ramos)books.google.com All 23 from this book
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