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Paulo Freire and Learning to Remake Man

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The Purpose of Education Is to Overcome Political Illiteracy

If we don't transcend the idea of education as pure transference of a knowledge that merely describes reality, we will prevent critical consciousness from emerging and thus reinforce political illiteracy. This is the basic es with all this political literacy. Liguige us hurt. If you don't wanto be a marxist, make education about describing reality. That's what he's saying. But he's saying it the other way round. We want to reinforce that. And he says, we will prevented critical consciousness from emerge. So if we want to preventcritical consciousness from emerging, all we have to do is use education as a means of transferring knowledge that describes reality. I trust that these

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