Pedagogy of the Oppressed

“frere also wrote a book uh later in his career called a pedagogy of hope which is you know that's convenient and in the introduction to that book what was interesting about pedagogy of hope is it's actually twenty years after he wrote his sort of initial work pedagogy of the oppressed ”

“i saw i see this particular critical race reading as sort of in the tradition of educators like paulo freire who wrote pedagogy of the oppressed ”

“it makes me think about how he was exiled from brazil because his work which was born of wanting to help provide literacy to adult peasants was seen as threatening to those in the status quo and in positions of power we can think of socrates in this way too of course and the lineage is long but absolutely the the method and tool to keep people from advancing is to divide and conquer make sure that no one ever learns from anyone again and that people are isolated then absolutely ”