I do not have time at this moment to read this piece however, Paulo Freire's quote, "The educator has the duty of not being neutral" strikes me as problematic. I think the opposite is true; otherwise the teaching becomes propaganda. It is the teacher's role to expand student's thinking, not impose one's own agenda,, limiting the students ability to think for themselves.
Mr. Freire's thinking is very much the problem in today's' university -- mod/mono-thinking.
I am a senior citizen, I take classes at the university in my city. My recent two classes were Proverbs and Classical Poetry. There should have been no room for politics in those classes. It was most disturbing to me that both professors exploited their positions to promote their liberal political agendas. I lean liberal still, I was more than a little disturbed by it on many levels.
I have great concerns about the message that says - what has been taught is all wrong -- my teaching is the right teaching.
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I do not have time at this moment to read this piece however, Paulo Freire's quote, "The educator has the duty of not being neutral" strikes me as problematic. I think the opposite is true; otherwise the teaching becomes propaganda. It is the teacher's role to expand student's thinking, not impose one's own agenda,, limiting the students ability to think for themselves.
Mr. Freire's thinking is very much the problem in today's' university -- mod/mono-thinking.
I am a senior citizen, I take classes at the university in my city. My recent two classes were Proverbs and Classical Poetry. There should have been no room for politics in those classes. It was most disturbing to me that both professors exploited their positions to promote their liberal political agendas. I lean liberal still, I was more than a little disturbed by it on many levels.
I have great concerns about the message that says - what has been taught is all wrong -- my teaching is the right teaching.
Sorry, no time to continue.