Lessons to Be Learned From Paulo Freire as Education Is Being Taken Over by the Mega Rich
Tuesday 23 November 2010
by: Henry A. Giroux, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed
Paulo Freire. (Photo: Slobodan Dimitrov)
(This is a much expanded version of "Lessons From Paulo Freire," which appeared in a recent issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education.)
At a time when memory is being erased and the political relevance of education is dismissed in the language of measurement and quantification, it is all the more important to remember the legacy and work of Paulo Freire. Freire is one of the most important educators of the 20th century and is considered one of the most important theorists of "critical pedagogy" - the educational movement guided by both passion and principle to help students develop a consciousness of freedom, recognize authoritarian tendencies, empower the imagination, connect knowledge and truth to power and learn to read both the word and the world as part of a broader
