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Paulo Freire's Prophetic Vision for Education

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The Pyramid Scheme of Gurus

Freire's work is not meant to offer radical recipes for instant forms of critical pedagogy, rather is that it is a series of theoretical signposts that need to be decoded and critically appropriated within the specific context in which they might be useful. Frereri provides a metal language that generates a set of categories and social practices that have to be critically mediated by those who would use them for the insights they might provide in different historical settings and contexts. At the top of this Ponzi pyramid is Paolo Frereri with his goofball religion being mediated by his chief evangelist, Henry Giroux. And then whoever's right below him was never wrong. Like I said,

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