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The Wretched of the Earth (French: Les Damnés de la Terre) is a 1961 book …
It’s hard for me to understand at this moment. I got to about page 30 and I wasn’t sure I understood the flow of the book. Or maybe the flow isn’t meant for me to understand at this time. Setting it aside for now. I so deeply wanted to read this.
The Wretched of the Earth (French: Les Damnés de la Terre) is a 1961 book …
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First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in …
So much on my mind after reading this wonderful book. I am currently going through many great changed in my life. I'm a month sober, I'm working out again. I completely lost myself. However, I'm slowly finding myself again. I always knew I was (or am) a being. I was trapped in oppression (still am) but now I know a lot more than before. I vow to stay a humanist and not become an oppressor. I vow to become a revolutionary leader, not a reactionary one. I cannot impose my ideas on people for my own purposes, they (the people) must think for themselves. But I can certainly help by learning with them and showing love. Thank you, Paulo Freire. I hope your spirit can hear my gratitude. You have changed my life.
The book is separated in four chapters that all cover really great topics. I don't really read …
So much on my mind after reading this wonderful book. I am currently going through many great changed in my life. I'm a month sober, I'm working out again. I completely lost myself. However, I'm slowly finding myself again. I always knew I was (or am) a being. I was trapped in oppression (still am) but now I know a lot more than before. I vow to stay a humanist and not become an oppressor. I vow to become a revolutionary leader, not a reactionary one. I cannot impose my ideas on people for my own purposes, they (the people) must think for themselves. But I can certainly help by learning with them and showing love. Thank you, Paulo Freire. I hope your spirit can hear my gratitude. You have changed my life.
The book is separated in four chapters that all cover really great topics. I don't really read this type of literature and it took me less than a month to read and understand it! A lot of the information provided is stuff I have always felt inside so it made it easier to understand most of it. There's really good bibliography and now I will read other books that were mentioned. I recommend this to anyone who is on a path of liberation.
First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in …
Wow. I know for a fact this book will always forever hold a special place in my heart.
Examines how people resisting oppression and wishing for autonomy are misled, twisted, and turned into leaders and followers who oppress …
First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in …
The teacher's task is to organize a process which already occurs spontaneously, to 'fill' the students by making deposits of information which he or she considers to constitute true knowledge. And since people 'receive' the world as passive entities, education should make them more passive still, and adapt them to the world. The educated individual is the adapted person, because she or he is better 'fit' for the world. Translated into practice, this concept is well suited to the purposes of the oppressors, whose tranquility rests on how well people fit the world the oppressors have created, and how little they question it.
— Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire (Page 76)
This took me awhile to digest because it's a lot but it makes sense. This banking system only helps the oppressors because they just have to worry about adapting the students into the world, allowing them to simply exist under the current system with no way of realizing how to get out of it.
First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in …
Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in 'changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them'; for the more the oppressed can be led to adapt to that situation, the more easily they can be dominated.
— Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire (Page 74)
I like this statement. It's very poetic but also real. Oppressors aren't interested in changing anything that will liberate the student, but they can certainly change the way they think about their situation so they can remain oppressed while they are too busy thinking about why they are oppressed.
Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, revolution, democracy, and ecology—terms often …
First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in …
They talk about the people, but they do not trust them; and trusting the people is the indispensable precondition for revolutionary change. A real humanist can be identified more by his trust in the people, which engages him in their struggle, than by a thousand actions in their favor without that trust.
— Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire (Page 60)
Freire was talking about a situation where an oppressor joins the side of the oppressed because they recognize that they must change. They show that there's work to do, but these converts bring 'their prejudices and their deformations' which may then show false generosity and want to be the ones who execute the revolution. I thought about myself because there was a time in my life where I was a victim of capitalism and was a racist and would say very mean things about people. I then woke up and noticed the things I was saying was morally incorrect so I decided to change. However, as much as I apologized for the things I was saying, I never fully found trust within myself or the people who I hurt. I'm not part of the oppressed class because I'm not a capitalist, but I believe you can become an oppressor while …
Freire was talking about a situation where an oppressor joins the side of the oppressed because they recognize that they must change. They show that there's work to do, but these converts bring 'their prejudices and their deformations' which may then show false generosity and want to be the ones who execute the revolution. I thought about myself because there was a time in my life where I was a victim of capitalism and was a racist and would say very mean things about people. I then woke up and noticed the things I was saying was morally incorrect so I decided to change. However, as much as I apologized for the things I was saying, I never fully found trust within myself or the people who I hurt. I'm not part of the oppressed class because I'm not a capitalist, but I believe you can become an oppressor while you are part of the oppressed. It is necessary to trust the people (and perhaps yourself) if you want the revolution to take place. Let the people naturally lead. No opportunists, no false converts, just the people.
A society where cannibalism has been legalized because of an animal Virus, leaves the butcher Marcos struggling with his morality …
First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in …
The radical, committed to human liberation, does not become the prisoner of a 'circle of certainty' within which reality is also imprisoned. On the contrary, the more radical the person is, the more fully he or she enters into a reality so that, knowing it better, he or she can better transform it. This individual is not afraid to confront, to listen, to see the world unveiled. This person is not afraid to meet the people or enter into dialogue with them. This person does not consider himself or herself the proprietor of history or of all people, or the liberator of the oppressed; but he or she does commit himself or herself, within history, to fight at their side.
— Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire (Page 39)
The best definition of a radical I have ever heard. I thought about my friend Ñukñu who to me is the most radical person I have ever met. I like to think as myself as radical but then that wouldn't be very radical of me. Freire talks about the differences between a sectarian and a radical. People on the left can be sectarians when they alienate others into believing that their 'truth' is the only truth.
First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in …
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