education as a practice of freedom

The education of the masses is the fundamental problem of developing countries, an education that, freed from all alienating traits, constitutes an enabling force for change and an impulse for freedom. Only in education can true human society be born, and no one lives outside of it. Therefore, the choice is between an 'education' for alienated 'domestication' and an education for freedom. 'Education for the object-man or education for the subject-man'. The author considers that within the historical conditions of society, a broad awareness of the masses is indispensable, which, through education, makes self-reflection on their time and space possible. He is deeply convinced that the elevation of the thought of the masses 'which is often hastily called politicization', as Fanon says in The Wretched of the Earth, and which constituted for them a way of being responsible in underdeveloped countries, begins precisely with this self-reflection that will lead them to the consequent deepening of their awareness and from which their insertion into history will result, no longer as spectators but as actors and authors.
Paulo Freire's pedagogy is, par excellence, a 'pedagogy of the oppressed' that does not postulate models of adaptation or transition for our societies, but rather models of rupture, change, and total transformation. Literacy, and consequently the entire task of educating, is only authentically humanistic.

The education of the masses is the fundamental problem of developing countries, an education that, freed from all alienating traits, constitutes an enabling force for change and an impulse for freedom. Only in education can true human society be born, and no one lives outside of it. Therefore, the choice is between an 'education' for alienated 'domestication' and an education for freedom. 'Education for the object-man or education for the subject-man'. The author considers that within the historical conditions of society, a broad awareness of the masses is indispensable, which, through education, makes self-reflection on their time and space possible. He is deeply convinced that the elevation of the thought of the masses 'which is often hastily called politicization', as Fanon says in The Wretched of the Earth, and which constituted for them a way of being responsible in underdeveloped countries, begins precisely with this self-reflection that will lead them to the consequent deepening of their awareness and from which their insertion into history will result, no longer as spectators but as actors and authors.
Paulo Freire's pedagogy is, par excellence, a 'pedagogy of the oppressed' that does not postulate models of adaptation or transition for our societies, but rather models of rupture, change, and total transformation. Literacy, and consequently the entire task of educating, is only authentically humanistic.