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Paulo Freire's Perpetual Cultural Revolution

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What Is Religion in This Sense Really Doing?

'This is a religious cult indoctrination programme posing as education,' he says. 'It does not belong in our schools, it isn't teaching people to be functional' He adds: 'If they did not sever their adherents to the world and emerge from it as a consciousness constituted in the admiration of the world as its object, men would be merely determinate beings' And that really tells us everything, doesn't it? Man is a creator. He doesn't know he's a creator, but that's what sets him apart from animals.'

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