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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    • rtstragedy [fae/faer, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      2 months ago

      it’s a work computer, and i’m only rebooting it so that i have an excuse not to work for a minute lol, the thing is a custom popup that plagues everyone and makes people miss meetings etc because of unexpected reboots

        • rtstragedy [fae/faer, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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          2 months ago

          nah, just mac os things, it takes a long time to do updates, they’re modern computers with all kinds of crazy spyware attached to them that the IT people at Megacorp doesn’t know how to even use properly. we have to change our ports when running webservers for local development occasionally because they just randomly block ports like 8080 and we get really weird error. “AI threat detection” lmfao

          and sometimes it pops up with some bullshit that i ignore because i’m trying to actually work lol, or you know, just dragging my feet in defiance. i don’t really care about their idea of “security”

            • rtstragedy [fae/faer, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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              2 months ago

              last mac i has was an M1, i got tricked into buying the 8GB model by youtubers, it made me a communist, but at least my parents were grateful for the gift. i’m Linux 100% (even split between Arch/Fedora, Debian for a server) now, except for an extremely intentionally broken Windows install I set up just for VR because … long post.

              i would say the enshittification happened as far as i’m concerned years ago with all the iCloud stuff, the general inability to firewall system processes, the OCSP fiasco, and system processing bypassing VPNs