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How Paulo Freire Made Marxism Stupid

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The Sixth Chapter of Politics of Education

The sixth chapter of politics of education is literally about how the process of bringing education into a society pushes people who were formerly at the center to the edges. It marginalizes them as an act of colonial violence. So let's look at this in terms of gardening. People who call themselves gardeners are actually self-appointed gatekeepers of gardening knowledge. And that gardening knowledge that they deem official and correct excludes other ways of knowing, so it forms a system of oppression. All you have to do is latch this on to hang it and think of it like a clothes hanger - now you're off to the races.

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