Pedagogy Of The Oppressed Summary

My lecturer used to say if you haven’t read Karl Marx book by the age of twenty two, there is something seriously wrong with you. Now I am going to say if a future educator never read Pedagogy of the Oppressed before they ever start their career, there is something seriously wrong with them. Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Friere is a remarkable educational literature that leaves impact not only to the education, but to the spirit of revolution at large. This book outlined the theory about oppression and the source of liberation which originated from education. In Friere’s view, the most crucial key to liberation is the revival of critical thinking process of an individual. This book has made me flashbacked my school year which is worth

Education that we received should be able to challenge our belief and question our reality. Education is more than accepting the information, it is an endeavor to develop our critical thinking on the knowledge that we received. Paulo Friere in his book mentioned that the solution to fix the banking concept of education is the teachers need to have a dialogue with the students in order to inculcate critical thinking. Apart from that, Paulo also stated that only the oppressed (the students) have enough strength to liberate both of the oppressors (the teachers) and themselves. Students and teachers become the partner in intellectually stimulating conversation will open the mind of the students to think critically and later develop ways to regain humanity for the

It baffles me why our education is still the very same as stated in book despite the fact that this book has brought revolution since the day it was published and has inspired so many movements. Maybe this is what Paulo meant when he mentioned false liberation in the book. It is not too much to say that teachers who might have realized their method of teaching is actually oppressing the students do not really transform their pedagogy. Those well-meaning teachers who come into the classroom with the goal of liberation might impose the idea of liberation to the students and the cycle of oppression continues to circling around the students and the teachers. Honestly speaking this could be influenced by the teachers’ attitudes who subconsciously think their values, experiences and skills are more significant than their students or other people in the community for that