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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One year when I had to play soccer during summer cause my parenrs decided that was a thing I had to do from age 5 to 12, I landed on a team with a bunch of kids I already knew and none of us really wanted to play soccer. They let us name our own team and for some reason we decided it would be funny (and it really was, but its have no idea how a bunch of 10 year old got to it) to name our team Bulgaria. The coach who was from somewhere that cared about soccer went with it and we were representing that nation every game despite knowing nothing about it.
For a certain generation of football guy Bulgaria might be their favourite country to talk about. Sports guys love a country that’s somewhat obscure, had a successful run, and has a very good player they can talk about. With Bulgaria it’s the 94 World Cup semi finals, and Ballon d’Or winner Stoichkov. Nonzero chance you guys stumbled on your coach’s favourite conversation topic at the pub lol.
With this coach, probably. He taught me so many cool things about soccer like, if the ball.goes out of bounds, throw it in regardless of who kicked it out, its jusr a redo if youre wrong and half the time the ref doesnt notice.
I was on a soccer team in middle school and of some reason we named ourselves Walter. I can't for the life of me remember why.