Humanizing Education
Paulo Friere wrote that central to authentic liberation is the process of humanization.
What then is a human education?
Currently few schools exist that are actually designed for human learning. Traditional school was designed to turn human children into adult factory workers. It succeeded, but what if we no-longer desire such a system? What if our desired outcomes for children and youth have changed since the industrial revolution?
Our desired outcomes for our children have changed. What are those desired outcomes today, and can the kinds of outcomes you would choose for your child’s life be effectively measured by a multiple choice test?
When parents are asked what outcomes they would like for their children, they often say “I want them to be