The new government faced the enormous task of educating its citizens. With Freire as collaborator and advisor the government launched a huge grass-roots literacy campaign and this book is Freire's memoir of that campaign.
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It could not be otherwise. If the humanization of the oppressed signifies subversion, so also does their freedom; hence the necessity for constant control. The pleasure in complete domination over another person or other animate creature is the very essence of the sadistic drive. One of the characteristics of the oppressor consciousness and its necrophilic view of the world is thus sadism. As the oppressor consciousness, Theirs is a fundamental role, and has been so throughout the history of this struggle.
It happens, however, that as they cease to be exploiters or indifferent spectators or simply the heirs of exploitation and move to the side of the exploited, they almost always bring with them the marks of their origin: their prejudices and their deformations, which include a lack of confidence in the peoples ability to think, to want, and to know.
Accordingly, these adherents to the people's cause constantly run the risk of falling into a type of generosity as malefic as that of the oppressors. The generosity of the oppressors is nourished by an unjust order, which must be maintained in order to justify that generosity. They talk about the people, but they do not trust them; and trusting the people is the indispensable precondition for revolutionary change. A real humanist can be identified more by his trust in the people, which engages him in their struggle, than by a thousand actions in their favor without that trust.
This conversion is so radical as not to allow of ambiguous behavior. To affirm this commitment but to consider oneself the proprietor of revolutionary wisdom—which The convert who approaches the people but feels alarm at each sfelp they take, each doubt they express, and each suggestion they offer, and attempts to impose his "status," remains nostalgic towards his origins.
Conversion to the people requires a profound rebirth. Those who undergo it must take on a new form of existence; they can no longer remain as they were. Accordingly, until they concretely "discover" their oppressor and in turn their own consciousness, they nearly always express fatalistic attitudes towards their situation.
The peasant begins to get courage to overcome his dependence when he realizes that he is dependent. Until then, he goes along with the boss and says "What can I do? I'm only a peasant. Fatalism in the guise of docility is the fruit of an historical and sociological situation, not an essential characteristic of a people's behavior.
Words of a peasant during an interview with the author. Chafing under the restrictions of this order, they often manifest a type of horizontal violence, striking out at their own comrades for the pettiest reasons. The colonized man will first manifest this aggressiveness which has been deposited in his bones against his own people. This is the period when the niggers beat each other up, and the police and magistrates do not know which way to turn when faced with the astonishing waves of crime in North Africa.
While the settler or the policeman has the right the livelong day to strike the native, to insult him and to make him crawl to them, you will see the native reaching for his knife at the slightest hostile or aggressive glance cast on him by another native; for the last resort of the native is to defend his personality vis-a-vis his brother. Because the oppressor exists within their oppressed comrades, when they attack those comrades they are indirectly at- tacking the oppressor as well. On the other hand, at a certain point in their existential experi- ence the oppressed feel an irresistible attraction towards the oppres- sors and their way of life.
Sharing this way of life becomes an overpowering aspiration. In their alienation, the oppressed want at any cost to resemble the oppressors, to imitate them, to follow them.
This phenomenon is especially prevalent in the middle-class op- pressed, who yearn to be equal to the "eminent" men and women of the upper class. Albert Memmi, in an exceptional analysis of the "colonized mentality," refers to the contempt he felt towards the colonizer, mixed with "passionate" attraction towards him. How could the colonized deny himself so cruelly yet make such excessive demands?
How could he hate the colonizers and yet admire them so passion- ately? I too felt this admiration in spite of myself. So often do they hear that they are good for nothing, know nothing and are incapable of learning anything—that they are sick, lazy, and unproductive—that in the end they become convinced of their own unfitness. The peasant feels inferior to the boss because the boss seems to be the only one who knows things and is able to run things.
The criteria of knowledge imposed upon them are the conventional ones. That way it'll take less time and wont give us a headache.
Given the circumstances which have produced their dual- ity, it is only natural that they distrust themselves. Not infrequently, peasants in educational projects begin to discuss a generative theme in a lively manner, then stop suddenly and say to the educator: "Excuse us, we ought to keep quiet and let you talk. You are the one who knows, we don't know anything.
The Colonizer and the Colonized Boston, , p. See chapter 3, p. I heard a peasant leader say in an asentamiento20 meeting, "They used to say we were unproductive because we were lazy and drunkards.
All lies. Now that we are respected as men, were going to show every- one that we were never drunkards or lazy. We were exploited! They have a diffuse, magical belief in the invulnerability and power of the oppres- sor. A sociologist friend of mine tells of a group of armed peasants in a Latin American country who recently took over a latifundium.
For tactical reasons, they planned to hold the landowner as a hostage. But not one peasant had the courage to guard him; his very presence was terrifying. It is also possible that the act of opposing the boss provoked guilt feelings. In truth, the boss was "inside" them. The oppressed must see examples of the vulnerability of the op- pressor so that a contrary conviction can begin to grow within them.
Until this occurs, they will continue disheartened, fearful, and beaten. Fur- ther, they are apt to react in a passive and alienated manner when confronted with the necessity to struggle for their freedom and self- affirmation. Little by little, however, they tend to try out forms of rebellious action. In working towards liberation, one must neither lose sight of this passivity nor overlook the moment of awakening.
Within their unauthentic view of the world and of themselves, the oppressed feel like "things" owned by the oppressor. For the latter, to be is to have, almost always at the expense of those who have Asentamiento refers to a production unit of the Chilean agrarian reform experiment. See Regis Debray, Revolution in the Revolution? New York, For the oppressed, at a certain point in their existential experience, to be is not to resemble the oppressor, but to be under him, to depend on him.
Accordingly, the oppressed are emotionally dependent. The peasant is a dependent. He cant say what he wants. Before he discovers his dependence, he suffers.
He lets off steam at home, where he shouts at his children, beats them, and despairs. He complains about his wife and thinks everything is dreadful. He doesn't let off steam with the boss because he thinks the boss is a superior being.
Lots of times, the peasant gives vent to his sorrows by drinking. It is only when the oppressed find the oppressor out and become involved in the organized struggle for their liberation that they begin to believe in themselves. Critical and liberating dialogue, which presupposes action, must be carried on with the oppressed at whatever the stage of their struggle for liberation.
Attempting to liberate the oppressed without their reflective participation in the act of liberation is to treat them as objects which must be saved from a burning building; it is to lead them into the populist pitfall and transform them into masses which can be manipulated. Interview with a peasant. Not in the open, of course; that would only provoke the fury of the oppressor and lead to still greater repression.
Reflection and action be- come imperative when one does not erroneously attempt to dichoto- mize the content of humanity from its historical forms.
The insistence that the oppressed engage in reflection on their concrete situation is not a call to armchair revolution. On the con- trary, reflection—true reflection—leads to action. On the other hand, when the situation calls for action, that action will constitute an authentic praxis only if its consequences become the object of critical reflection.
In this sense, the praxis is the new raison d'etre of the oppressed; and the revolution, which inaugurates the historical moment of this raison d'etre, is not viable apart from their concomi- tant conscious involvement. Otherwise, action is pure activism. To achieve this praxis, however, it is necessary to trust in the oppressed and in their ability to reason. Whoever lacks this trust will fail to initiate or will abandon dialogue, reflection, and commu- nication, and will fall into using slogans, communiques, monologues, and instructions.
Superficial conversions to the cause of liberation carry this danger. Political action on the side of the oppressed must be pedagogical action in the authentic sense of the word, and, therefore, action with the oppressed.
Those who work for liberation must not take advantage of the emotional dependence of the oppressed— dependence that is the fruit of the concrete situation of domination which surrounds them and which engendered their unauthentic view of the world.
Using their dependence to create still greater dependence is an oppressor tactic. Libertarian action must recognize this dependence as a weak point and must attempt through reflection and action to transform it into independence.
However, not even the best-intentioned lead- ership can bestow independence as a gift. The liberation of the oppressed is a liberation of women and men, not things. Accordingly, while no one liberates himself by his own efforts alone, neither is he liberated by others. Liberation, a human phenomenon, cannot be achieved by semihumans. The correct method for a revolutionary leadership to employ in the task of liberation is, therefore, not "libertarian propaganda. The correct method lies in dialogue.
This conviction cannot be packaged and sold; it is reached, rather, by means of a totality of reflection and action. Only the leaders own involvement in reality, within an historical situation, led them to criticize this situation and to wish to change it. Likewise, the oppressed who do not commit themselves to the struggle unless they are convinced, and who, if they do not make such a commitment, withhold the indispensable conditions for this struggle must reach this conviction as Subjects, not as objects.
They also must intervene critically in the situation which surrounds them and whose mark they bear; propaganda cannot achieve this. It is necessary, that is, unless one intends to carry out the transformation for the oppressed rather than with them. The revolutionary leaders of every epoch who have affirmed that the oppressed must These points will be discussed at length in chapter 4.
Many of these leaders, however perhaps due to natural and understandable biases against pedagogy , have ended up using the "educational" methods employed by the oppressor. It is essential for the oppressed to realize that when they accept the struggle for humanization they also accept, from that moment, their total responsibility for the struggle.
They must realize that they are fighting not merely for freedom from hunger, but for. It is not enough that men are not slaves; if social conditions further the existence of automatons, the result will not be love of life, but love of death. The oppressed have been destroyed precisely because their situation has reduced them to things. In order to regain their humanity they must cease to be things and fight as men and women.
This is a radical requirement. They cannot enter the struggle as objects in order later to become human beings. The struggle begins with men's recognition that they have been destroyed. Propaganda, management, manipulation—all arms of domination—cannot be the instruments of their rehumanization.
The only effective instrument is a humanizing pedagogy in which the revolutionary leadership establishes a permanent relationship of dialogue with the oppressed. In a humanizing pedagogy the method Fromm, op. Consciousness is thus by definition a method, in the most general sense of the word. Alvaro Vieira Pinto, from a work in preparation on the philosophy of science. The contents, whether values or empirical dimensions of reality, tend in the process of being narrated to become lifeless and petrified.
Education is suffering from narration sickness. 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.
The outstanding characteristic of this narrative education, then, is the sonority of words, not their transforming power. Worse yet, it turns them into "containers," into "receptacles" to be "filled" by the teacher. The more completely she fills the receptacles, the better a teacher she is.
The more meekly the receptacles permit themselves to be filled, the better students they are. Education thus becomes an act of depositing, in which the stu- dents are the depositories and the teacher is the depositor.
Instead of communicating, the teacher issues communiques and makes de- posits which the students patiently receive, memorize, and repeat.
This is the "banking" concept of education, in which the scope of action allowed to the students extends only as far as receiving, filing, and storing the deposits. They do, it is true, have the opportunity to become collectors or cataloguers of the things they store.
But in the last analysis, it is the people themselves who are filed away through the lack of creativity, transformation, and knowledge in this at best misguided system. For apart from inquiry, apart from the praxis, individuals cannot be truly human. Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other. 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.
Projecting an absolute ignorance onto others, a characteristic of the ideology of oppression, negates education and knowledge as processes of inquiry. The teacher pre- sents himself to his students as their necessary opposite; by consid- ering their ignorance absolute, he- justifies his own existence.
The students, alienated like the slave in the Hegelian dialectic, accept their ignorance as justifying the teachers existence—but, unlike the slave, they never discover that they educate the teacher. The raison d'etre of libertarian education, on the other hand, lies in its drive towards reconciliation. Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.
It is not surprising that the banking concept of education regards men as adaptable, manageable beings. The more students work at storing the deposits entrusted to them, the less they develop the critical consciousness which would result from their intervention in the world as transformers of that world.
The more completely they accept the passive role imposed on them, the more they tend simply to adapt to the world as it is and to the fragmented view of reality deposited in them. Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in "changing the con- sciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them";1 for the more the oppressed can be led to adapt to that situation, the more easily they can be dominated.
To achieve this end, the oppressors use the banking concept of education in con- junction with a paternalistic social action apparatus, within which the oppressed receive the euphemistic title of "welfare recipients. The oppressed are regarded as the pathology of the healthy society, which must therefore adjust these "incompetent and lazy" folk to its own patterns by changing their mentality.
These marginals need to be "integrated," "incorporated" into the healthy society that they have "forsaken. They have always been "inside"—inside the structure which made them "beings for others. The banking approach to adult education, for example, will never propose to students that they critically consider reality.
It will deal instead with such vital questions as whether Roger gave green grass to the goat, and insist upon the importance of learning that, on the contrary, floger gave green grass to the rabbit.
The "humanism" of the banking approach masks the effort to turn women and men into automatons—the very negation of their ontological vocation to be more fully human. But, sooner or later, these contradictions may lead formerly passive students to turn against their domestication and the attempt to domesticate reality.
They may perceive through their relations with reality that reality is really a process, undergoing constant transformation. From the outset, her efforts must coincide with those of the students to engage in critical thinking and the quest for mutual humanization. His efforts must be imbued with a profqund trust in people and their creative power. To achieve this, they must be partners of the students in their relations with them. The banking concept does not admit to such partnership—and necessarily so.
This view makes no distinction between being ac- cessible to consciousness and entering consciousness. The distinc- tion, however, is essential: the objects which surround me are simply accessible to my consciousness, not located within it.
I am aware of them, but they are not inside me. It follows logically from the banking notion of consciousness that the educator s role is to regulate the way the world "enters into" the students. The teachers task is to organise a process which already occurs spontaneously, to "fill" the students by making deposits of information which he or she considers to constitute true knowledge.
The educated individual is the adapted person, because she or he is better "fit" for the world. Translated into practice, this concept is well suited to the purposes of the oppressors, whose tranquility rests on how well people fit the world the oppressors have created, and how little they question it. The more completely the majority adapt to the purposes which the dominant minority prescribe for them thereby depriving them of the right to their own purposes , the more easily the minority can continue to prescribe.
The theory and practice of banking education serve this end quite efficiently. Verbalistic lessons, reading require- ments, 3 the methods for evaluating "knowledge," the distance be- tween the teacher and the taught, the criteria, for promotion: everything in this ready-to-wear approach serves to obviate thinking. The bank-clerk educator does not realize that there is no true security in his hypertrophied role, that one must seek to live with others in solidarity. One cannot impose oneself, nor even merely 2.
This concept corresponds to what Sartre calls the "digestive" or "nutritive" concept of education, in which knowledge is "fed" by the teacher to the students to "fill them out. For example, some professors specify in their reading lists that a book should be read from pages 10 to 15—and do this to "help" their students!
Yet only through communication can human life hold meaning. The teachers thinking is authenticated only by the authenticity of the students thinking. The teacher cannot think for her students, nor can she impose her thought on them.
If it is true that thought has meaning only when generated by action upon the world, the subordination of students to teachers becomes impossible. Because banking education begins with a false understanding of men and women as objects, it cannot promote the development of what Fromm calls "biophily," but instead produces its opposite: "necrophily.
The necrophilous person is driven by the desire to transform the organic into the inorganic, to approach life mechanically, as if all living persons were things. The necrophilous person can relate to an object—a flower or a person—only if he possesses it; hence a threat to his possession is a threat to himself; if he loses possession he loses contact with the world.
He loves control, and in the act of controlling he kills life. The banking concept of education, which serves the interests of oppression, is also necrophilic. It attempts to control thinking and action, leads women and men to adjust to the world, and inhibits their creative power. But can [they], and how? One way is to submit to and identify with a person or group having power. ICT, Pedagogy and the Curriculum. Second Language Pedagogy. Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy. Love as Pedagogy.
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