update
- I did go to Brooklyn and as a result of that the damn Beastie Boys song that I used to love has been stuck in my head ever since
- The trip was amazing, because it must have been the first one I made by myself as an adult in a foreign country
- Even though it was a very short one - a day long and by car/train/subway
- Alternative forms of education (free schools, trade schools, humane education, democratic schools, etc) are fucking awesome and I’m happy to be in a place where I get the chance to experience and get to know more about these things and people
- Brooklyn is fucking cool and beautiful, and I didn’t even go to any of the tourist destinations there
- A guy from Senegal flirted with me and that made me happy
- Had some of the best food - actually… I have been having some of the best food lately… so many options that will make me gain so much weight!
- This is already too long, so that’s it.
Attempting to liberate the oppressed without their reflective participation in the act of liberation is to treat them as objects that must be saved from a burning building.
Paulo Freire (via street-smart)
Any situation in which some individuals prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence.
Paulo Freire in Pedagogy of the Oppressed (via pelafina)
Frank McCourt on Teacher Man
The truth is, however, that the oppressed are not marginals, are not men living outside society. They have always been inside — inside the structure which made them beings for others. The solution is not to integrate them into the structure of oppression, but to transform that structure so that they can become beings for themselves.
Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (via jordanjacobo)
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Seems legit.
Attempting to liberate the oppressed without their reflective participation in the act of liberation is to treat them as objects that must be saved from a burning building.
Paulo Freire (via street-smart)
language is never neutral
paulo freire (via colours-light)
A major flaw in how we educate our students. As a teacher, I’m as guilty as anyone else of this.
Dang that’s scary.
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I am. Many many things. 
