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Paulo Freire and the Birth of Groomer Schools

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The Importance of Literacy in the Colonial World

Frida Ghitis: FRAERI is misreading the direct claims that he's presenting made by peasants. He's putting his own stupid communist view over it, she says. You can groom people into seeing the system itself as a problem and induce them into an oppressed identity - but you're teaching them to be Marxists, writes Ghitis. She adds Freire includes an important footnote saying right as a conservative force needs no utopia; its essence is affirmation of existing conditions.

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