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  • Gorn [they/them,he/him]
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    4 years ago

    It's just such a relevant, prescient quote. I love how Freire walks the line between educator, psychologist, and revolutionary. What a based intersection to sit at

    Sectarianism, fed by fanaticism, is always castrating. Radicalization, nourished by a critical spirit, is always creative. Sectarianism mythicizes and thereby alienates; radicalization criticizes and thereby liberates. Radicalization involves increased commitment to the position one has chosen, and thus ever greater engagement in the effort to transform concrete, objective reality. Conversely, sectarianism, because it is mythicizing and irrational, turns reality into a false (and therefore unchangeable) “reality.”

    • Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed