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Pedagogy of the Oppressed

  • The Leisure to be Your Own Self

    “You find peace  not by rearranging the circumstances of your life,  but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.”  ― Eckhart Tolle Aware. Awakened. Enlightened. Mindful. Many ways of describing a person who is tuned-in with the Encompassing. Each… Continue reading

    The Leisure to be Your Own Self

  • Textimony 20130202

    Friendship cannot revolve around indebtedness & be a relation of excellence. Choose your companionships well: shall it be veiled vicious slavery or clear virtuous solidarity? Source: fineartamerica.com via Keith Wayne on Pinterest Related articles Letting-go Hateful Circumstance by the Naming… Continue reading

  • Why Parents Need to Let Their Children Fail

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions A new study explores what happens to students who aren’t allowed to suffer through setbacks. Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: Loving struggle and the benefits of fortitude come from the encounter of person to person… Continue reading

  • Don’t Look Down!

    The next time you go rock climbing or scrambling up a peak, someone may give you some clichéd but good advice: “Don’t look down.” This is not just a recommendation that works with struggling up a physical height. Often, you… Continue reading

  • Letting-go Hateful Circumstance by the Naming of the World

    The oppressed, the put-upon, the dejected–all sink into an existence where the oppressor counts on never being challenged because the ones who are afflicted would do anything to be something other than the down-trodden. Those who grow in such power… Continue reading

    Letting-go Hateful Circumstance by the Naming of the World

  • Jeopardized and Jeopardizing

    “As we attempt to analyze dialogue as a human phenomenon, we discover something which is the essence of dialogue itself: the word. But the word is more than just an instrument which makes dialogue possible; accordingly, we must seek its… Continue reading

  • The Banking Conception of Education

    “In the banking concept of education, knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those whom they consider to know nothing.” Paulo Freire, The Pedagogy of the Oppressed                … Continue reading

  • Freedom & the Loving Struggle

    “Liberation is thus a childbirth, and a painful one.” Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed Source: etsy.com via Joni on Pinterest   Continue reading