What Paulo Freire thinks about optimism
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.
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2 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 wordsConsciously or unconsciously, the act of rebellion by the oppressed (an act which is always, or nearly always, as violent as the initial violence of the oppressors) can initiate love.
↗Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Bloomsbury, 2014 edition; tr. Myra Bergman Ramos)books.google.com All 23 from this book
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Their wordsThey talk about the people, but they do not trust them; and trusting the people is the indispensable precondition for revolutionary change.
↗Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Bloomsbury, 2014 edition; tr. Myra Bergman Ramos)books.google.com All 23 from this book