Paulo Freire, born on the 19th of September in 1921, was a Brazilian philosopher and radical pedagogue most known for his 1968 work Pedagogy of the Oppressed. “Language is never neutral.”

Paulo was born in Recife, the capital of the northeastern Brazilian state of Pernambuco. Initially affluent, his family experienced hardship during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and Freire’s education suffered due to his own experiences with poverty and hunger.

Freire began working as a schoolteacher in the 1940s, beginning to serve as the director of the Pernambuco Department of Education and Culture in 1946. Due to the 1964 Brazilian coup d’état, where a military dictatorship was put in place with the support of the United States, Paulo Freire was exiled from his home country, an exile that lasted 16 years.

Freire then worked in Chile, until April 1969 when he accepted a temporary position at Harvard University. It was during this period, in 1968, that Freire published his most famous work, “Pedagogy of the Oppressed”.

In this text, Freire criticizes what he calls the “banking method” of education, wherein a teacher “deposits” knowledge into an empty vessel, the student, or “bank”. Instead, Freire calls upon teacher to engage in a more dialog-centric or creative education, one in which the suppressed experiences of the oppressed help create knowledge, fostering a social reality in which the marginalized are humanized.

Pedagogy of the Oppressed has since become the third most cited book in the social sciences, according to Elliott D. Green. As of 2000, the book had sold over 750,000 copies worldwide.

“Manipulation, sloganizing, depositing, regimentation, and prescription cannot be components of revolutionary praxis, precisely because they are the components of the praxis of domination.”

Paulo Freire

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    Its getting to be around 10 degrees Celsius. Summer is over but its bot quote spooky season. It’s time to earch Twin peaks again and get into a really fucking weird mental state because of it!

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    buying tickets at my local cinema and it looks like they got rid of the fancy “loveseat” paired recliners since last time I was there, a few months ago? on all 14 screens? that had to have been expensive, i wonder what happened

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    Sorry if I upset anyone when I said I didn’t mind no more Americans on TikTok. Just been frustrated lately with the news surrounding Venezuela and normies still glorifying the US because their favorite streamer makes it look like Disney world

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    Feeling like shit all over again. Really thought I was starting to climb out of this rut over this past week and IDK… maybe its just working 6 days a week. Or the feeling that I self-sabatoged the relationships I had spent so much time building over the past year in just a matter of weeks. Or just thinking so much about what exactly I want for the future. All of it. Just all of it. I want to go far and not have to think about anything for a week or two, but its not happening anytime soon.

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    Anyone have thoughts on the line between being a class conscious worker and abusing the system to fire a chud? One part of me acknowledges that I can fire a fucking piece of shit tomorrow, but the other part of me is saying that he has rent to pay and a family. His politics are putrid though. When does empathy go too far? When does hatred for the hateful go too far? I don’t know. I know this guy fucking sucks… he endorsed the Candace Owen Macron stuff today as. Point of reference

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    Everytime I want a cigarette I’m trying to do 15 push ups for the headrush, and I’m getting pretty damn fit - but i have to start exercising other muscle groups because I’ve hurt myself at work (rsi), i am not enjoying getting older

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