Rex Kerr
Mar 11, 2024

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I haven't bothered reading Freire because he doesn't (as far as I can tell from second-hand summaries) have the philosophical sophistication of the Frankfurt School folks, and I already can only barely stand reading them because the ratio of motivated reasoning to careful appraisal of evidence is too low.

And I haven't read Fanon because the best reason to do so seems to me to be to understand the influence of Fanon on Freire.

If you can recommend a passage from Freire that is essentially, "This is how we can be highly confident that we are raising students with broad awareness of the world rather than indoctrinating them into our particular view of an oppression-freedom axis," then I might reconsider. Otherwise I'm not sure it's worth reading directly.

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Rex Kerr
Rex Kerr

Written by Rex Kerr

One who rejoices when everything is made as simple as possible, but no simpler. Sayer of things that may be wrong, but not so bad that they're not even wrong.

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