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Paulo Freire's Marxification of Education

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The Importance of Education in Marxism

Lukacs said that the proletariat has been entrusted by history with the task of transforming society consciously. Freire wants this to be education. He says teaching men to read and write is no longer an inconsequential matter, but a difficult apprenticeship in naming the world. The people dominating you say by teaching you to do math or read are dehumanizing you as though your own knowledge of the world in your state of oppression isn't more important than theirs.

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