Assignment 1B

Freire believed that all people should have the chance to become educated. I think the fact that he grew up in poverty helped him to become one of the most influential educational thinkers of the 20th century. He thought it was unfair and unjust that people in the lower class were not able to vote because they couldn’t read or write. Freire did his best to convince them that they had the chance to learn just like anybody else. Friere wanted to bring education to the most urban areas and he also wanted to come up with a new of teaching.

Freire was able to teach 300 sugarcane workers to read in 45 days, and that was just his first experiment with teaching people to read. I think that is quite an accomplishment, and I think it shows just how badly he wanted to educate those around him.

Freire also had a concept of “banking” that was quite popular. He viewed his students as an empty account and he, the teacher, would fill their accounts with knowledge. He not only wanted to teach his students, but he wanted to learn from them. A student-teacher relationship was very important to him and his work.

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