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Paulo Freire's Marxification of Education

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The Nutritionist Concept of Knowledge

Freiree: The existing model of education where your kids learn to read and do math is actually the existing society, taking them as empty vessels or bank accounts. He writes that literates are considered under nourished not in a literal sense but because they lack the bread of the spirit. It says consistent with the concept of knowledge as food, illiteracy is conceived of as a poison herb intoxicating and debilitating persons who cannot read or write. And so you can either reproduce that or you can eject from that and do something different.

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