It is sickening. Sickening that educating has become
so much an “industry” to forsake the very meaning of the term in its core,
leaving nothing but an empty shell, a nobody. The oppression of the industry of
educating is adequately explored in this chapter. It’s a nonsensical idea to be
so absolutely deceived that your very role as an educator means depriving the
less knowledgeable of the just opportunity to progress towards understanding or
functioning in a meaningful way and becoming a contributing member of the
social construct of humanity.
“The teacher talks about reality as if it were motionless, static,
compartmentalized, and predictable. Or else he expounds on a topic completely
alien to the existential experience of the students. His task is to
"fill" the students with the contents of his narration -- contents
which are detached from reality, disconnected from the totality that engendered
them and could give them significance. Words are emptied of their concreteness
and become a hollow, alienated, and alienating verbosity.” (Paulo Freire).
This is not education. This is indeed oppression; it is an assembly
line of pointless existence where the existence of the teacher is contrived
only on the ineptness of the student body. To educate means more than just “depositing”
arbitrary facts and dictations into the “receptacle” of the students’ minds.
Education means to give purpose to those who have yet to discover theirs. To
provide students with the tools and developmental progression to apply what
they know and how they perceive the world to the environment and social
connections that involve their lives. Education means to connect with others
through understanding each other, whether they be student or teacher. The idea
that an educator is meant to “Know everything” and that a student is meant to “know
nothing” defeats the reasoning behind any such connection.
To educate means to learn indefinitely.
http://faculty.webster.edu/corbetre/philosophy/education/freire/freire-2.html
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