![]() At the age of 38 he received his doctorate from the University of Recife and remained there as professor of history and philosophy of education for several years. This book forges a vital link between education and politics which those of us who profess to have radical views and want to help in one form or another of radical political organizing should take to heart.īorn in Brazil in 1921, Freire became a Marxist early in his life, largely out of the extreme conditions of poverty amidst which he and his family lived. True education, according to Freire, leads to liberation and thus to the degree it stifles or encourages freedom, the process of education is powerful political tool. It is concerned with a method of perceiving reality which emphasizes the interaction among people as a means of developing their perceptual and analytical powers. It is not, however, a book about the teaching of science per se, but therein lies its true value. ![]() It is a book for those who would make science truly of value for the people. ![]() Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed (New York Herder and Herder, 1970) is a critical book for all those who are seeking alternative lifestyles in the teaching of science life styles which are grounded in and have bearing on the social, political and economic reality of the contemporary world. ![]()
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