Problem-posing education does not and cannot serve the interests of the oppressor. No oppressive order could permit the oppressed to begin to question: Why?

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.

Implicit in the banking concept [of education] is the assumption of a dichotomy between human beings and the world: a person is merely in the world, not with the world or with others…In this view, the person is not a conscious being (corpo consciente); he or she is rather the possessor of a consciousness: an empty “mind” passively open to the reception of deposits of reality from the world outside.

https://envs.ucsc.edu/internships/internship-readings/freire-pedagogy-of-the-oppressed.pdf

  • VILenin [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    I’m fucking begging you to understand that random chodes on reddit don’t hate kids out of a deep philosophical commitment

    • robot_dog_with_gun [they/them]
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      1 year ago

      reddit is big enough and old enough to have users with multiple distinct positions and motivations and you shouldn't paint with so broad a brush.