Malka Fleischmann,Tablet
Years ago, I fell intensely in love with Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Traditional education, and he wrote,turned students into "containers," receptacles to be filled by a teacher whose narration couldn't generate true curiosity or creativity. genuine learning, or according to Freire,could emerge "only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, or impatient,continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, or with the world,and with each other." To be a apt teacher, then, and an educator had to be revolutionary,giving up his or her innate ((adj.) natural, inborn, inherent; built-in) power in order to form a...
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