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Paulo Freire’s “Critical” Method of Education | James Lindsay

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The Importance of Education in the Treatment of Illiterates

This way of handling illiterates implies a distorted opinion. It is as if illiterates were totally different from everyone else, alien, one might say. This distortion fails to acknowledge their real life experience and all the past and ongoing knowledge acquired through their experience. As passive and docile beings, since this is how they are viewed and treated, right, illiterate learners must continue to receive transfusions. They will never question the very reality that deprives men of the right to speak up. Not only literates, but all those who are treated as objects in a dependent relationship. Alienated men cannot overcome their dependency by incorporation into the very structure responsible for the dependency. You instead have to teach

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