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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Theoretical question. How many pictures is too many pictures for an effort post about an old video game? Can I just upload them through Hexbear? I'm thinking 20-30. Is that too many? What size should I make them in order to make a good balance between server bandwidth and visibility?
Hexbear will probably ratelimit you if you upload a ton so you might have to prep a few hours beforehand, uploading slowly (20min intervals?)
good plan! i need a way to build this document preferably with images in one place, i'm wondering if it's LibreOffice time, but I'm already using a markdown editor, so i don't want to convert to Weird WYSIWYG stuff in order to just convert back for HB
in descending order of masochism
notepadqq, gnu nano, vim, vi
actually, i ended up just arranging it on HB and having the pics in a folder. but i am a vim user 100%, although I use LazyVim these days since I cant be f'd trying to work around work security bullshit to get all the dotfiles copied into the Spyware Zone so that it's sync'd with my personal computers.
If the server crashes it's too many pictures because then I won't be able to post about it.
You can upload them to imgur if you want.
thanks ill try HB for now, once i get around to it
thanks!