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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'Γ©tat, 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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[-] Comrade_Mushroom@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

I'm about to become a "Jesus didn't exist even as a normal human" guy - not in spite of Christianity, but in spite of people just believing whatever they want despite the facts as presented, many of which would get very mad about this stance.

(I will not actually do this, I'm just imagining it for fun)

[-] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 3 points 4 weeks ago

Theres a little proof Jesus of Nazareth, like just the guy, actually existed but given his historical religious weight its hard to say what was made post facto to justify Christianity and what didnt. Theres some contemporary roman sources that said there was a guy named Christ or Christus that led a rebellion among Jews in Palestine. A lot of them also note he had a brother? Which I guess is interesting that that never made it into the much of the gospels (I guess one of Paul's letters mention his brother) but Mary and Joseph were a married couple and presumably had kids together - Catholic tradition is that Mary was always a virgin and these brothers were step siblings or cousins.

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