Paulo Freire, born on the 19th of September in 1921, was a Brazilian philosopher and radical pedagogue most known for his 1968 work Pedagogy of the Oppressed. "Language is never neutral."
Paulo was born in Recife, the capital of the northeastern Brazilian state of Pernambuco. Initially affluent, his family experienced hardship during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and Freire's education suffered due to his own experiences with poverty and hunger.
Freire began working as a schoolteacher in the 1940s, beginning to serve as the director of the Pernambuco Department of Education and Culture in 1946. Due to the 1964 Brazilian coup d'Γ©tat, where a military dictatorship was put in place with the support of the United States, Paulo Freire was exiled from his home country, an exile that lasted 16 years.
Freire then worked in Chile, until April 1969 when he accepted a temporary position at Harvard University. It was during this period, in 1968, that Freire published his most famous work, "Pedagogy of the Oppressed".
In this text, Freire criticizes what he calls the "banking method" of education, wherein a teacher "deposits" knowledge into an empty vessel, the student, or "bank". Instead, Freire calls upon teacher to engage in a more dialog-centric or creative education, one in which the suppressed experiences of the oppressed help create knowledge, fostering a social reality in which the marginalized are humanized.
Pedagogy of the Oppressed has since become the third most cited book in the social sciences, according to Elliott D. Green. As of 2000, the book had sold over 750,000 copies worldwide.
"Manipulation, sloganizing, depositing, regimentation, and prescription cannot be components of revolutionary praxis, precisely because they are the components of the praxis of domination."
Paulo Freire
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Tail wagging is considered cute on every animal except rattlesnakes.
Heard a rattlesnake in real life for the first time a couple months back, that is no joke it'll stick with me. Hauntingly beautiful, deadly. I was probably 20 feet away, 6m for non-USAians. And for a not so fun fact for our ex-US hexbears, many
departments in the US teach that if a knife-weilding ~~attacker~~ person is within 21' / 7m, well you better just light 'em up because they will stab you before you can get your gun up.
Edit: I said attacker, but it could just be anyone. Cop apologia language seeped into my brain.
a rattlesnake would never rush you like a human could. a rattlesnake is essentially only dangerous within striking distance. they're just scared widdle guys, no step!
Oh absolutely! I was just riffing on the trained vicious cowardice of our enforcers, but I realize that was a bit of a thread hijack.
Yeah someone who cares about me seems preoccupied with the danger they perceive from rattlesnakes and I keep explaining that these critters won't hurt us if they can avoid it. The best thing to do if one is spotted is to just wait for it to slither away. Most people that get bitten are young men (no offense fellas) who were trying to handle it in some way, and many of them are intoxicated (again, no shade). Accidents do happen so one should take care when stepping over logs or rocks, or when reaching into places, and I'm not trying to be dismissive if someone knows someone or a pet that got bit.
This person that wants me to be safe suggested I take a long walking stick and use it to fling (!?) rattlers off the trail if I encounter one, and I had to demonstrate through geometry that like, even with a stick over 4'/1.2m that actually would put me in striking distance. And there ain't no way I'm getting into hand-to-hand combat with a venomous reptile if I can avoid it!
learning safe handling skills from herpers & packing a little handling equipment could be a good idea though. but yeah it's easy to just go around them lol.
Now I'm wondering if anklosaurs wagged their tails when happy or only when mad.