Pedagogy of the oppressed is one of the best books I have read this summer. This is a book review of sorts, though I do not highlight all aspects of the book. I only make reference to chapter 2.
2. Takeaways
& Quotes
From Paulo Freire’s book (Chapter 2)
A presentation by
Jorge Madrid, Founder,
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“To the oppressed,
and to those who suffer with
them and fight at their side.”
Paulo Freire
3. In the banking concept of education,
knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who
consider themselves knowledgeable upon
those whom they consider to know nothing.
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4. Education thus becomes an act of
depositing, in which the students are
the depositories and the teacher is the
depositor.
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16. I must be quiet in class.
I must be quiet in class.
I must be quiet in class.
I must be quiet in class.
The teacher disciplines and the
students are disciplined;
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18. The teacher acts and the students have the illusion
of acting through the action of the teacher. Edutechnia.org
19. The teachers chooses the program content,
and the students (who were not consulted)
adapt to it; Edutechnia.org
20. The teacher confuses the
authority of knowledge
with her own professional
authority which she sets
in opposition to the
freedom of the students; Edutechnia.org
21. The teacher is the
Subject of the learning
process, while the pupils
are mere objects.
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22. The capability of banking education to
minimize or annul the students’
creative power and to stimulate their
credulity serves the interest of the
oppressors, who care neither to have
the world revealed nor to see it
transform.
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23. Sooner or later students may perceive the
contradiction in which banking education seeks
to maintain them, and then engaged themselves
in the struggle for their liberation.
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24. But the humanist,
revolutionary educator
cannot wait for this
possibility to
materialize.
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25. From the outset, her efforts
must coincide with those of the
students to engage in critical
thinking and the quest for
mutual humanization.
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26. His efforts must be imbue with a
profound trust in people and their
creative power.
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27. To achieve this, teachers must be partners
of the students in their relation with them.
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28. Education must begin with
the solution of the teacher-
student contradiction so that
both are simultaneously
teachers and students.
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29. Reference:
The Continuum International Publishing Group Inc
30. Images: Microsoft Office Online
Image on Slide 1, and 9
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