Not to worry, Eric. No one in teacher's college actually reads the required texts.
A quotation from the article:Freire spent some time in jail and was then exiled to Chile, where---inspired by his work with the Brazilian peasants---he worked on /Pedagogy of the Oppressed/. Hence the book's insistence that schooling is never a neutral process and that it always has a dynamic political purpose. And hence, too, one of the few truly pedagogical points in the book: its opposition to taxing students with any actual academic content, which Freire derides as "official knowledge" that serves to rationalize inequality within capitalist society.
-----------------------------------------A quotation from President Wilson (then president of Princeton U...I think).:
"We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity in every society, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks." --- Woodrow Wilson <http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/176386.Woodrow_Wilson>
Note: I haven't been following this thread....just butting in...sorry... Ursula ---------------------------------------------------------- Eric Yost wrote:Here's an example of Marxist "footing" placing said footing up one's backside. -EY
Pedagogy of the OppressorAnother reason why U.S. ed schools are so awful: the ongoing influence of Brazilian Marxist Paulo Freirehttp://city-journal.org/2009/19_2_freirian-pedagogy.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html
