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Paulo Freire and Learning to Remake Man

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The Point of Education Is to Awaken a Critical Consciousness

The point of education is to awaken a critical consciousness. That is the marxis type of political literacy. And that's going to be done at the expense of genuine literacy, or academic mastery. We need about racial politics based vocabulary lists where the vocabulary words are things like racism, suffering, misery, injustice and equity. So as we saw through the first six chapters of this book, there's a big ceru that's taking place with frerian education. The codification, probleization, de codification is just another repackaging, by the way. It's just a re packaging of hegel. Hegel changed the dialectic whether you like kant or not, doesn't

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