Ten things I learned from week 2

Ten things I learned from last week from my class mates are:

Nicole- "One of Freire's main goals in life was to educate the illiterate" I think this is so important to help spread knowledge to those who don't know.

Marylou- "Freire believed in "dialogue." " This creates open knowledge and communication which is invaluable.

Daniel- "one of the most important things that Freire did happened in 1961 when he helped over 300 illiterate workers learn to read in just forty-five days." This is incredible! It shows the inspiration and strength of one man can make a huge difference.

Jared- "His ideas challenged the prevalent methods of institutional learning." Sometimes to get the best results you have to look outside the box!

Jason- "he lived much of his life studying the psychology of language." I thought this was unique as you don't hear of a lot of people studying this aspect.

Nelson-"Paulo Freire has spent his life with education as the most valued commodity among students and teachers alike." I liked this line! I think it is so true and simple but it just stood out to me.

Aloma-"“an environment where teachers are the narrators and the students are the recorders”. I liked this analogy. I think that it was great that he compared the banking analogy to the education.

Nikki-"He believed that educators and the educated should be almost interchangeable" This is such a wonderful concept that he had. I almost wish we saw more of this.

Kimmie-"Although Freire was born in Brazil to a middle class family, his inspirations of recognizing the poor could be empowered to live creatively," I think this shows us that anyone can come from anywhere or any class of social status and still greatly amount to something.

Tarissa-"influential theorist of critical pedagogy, which can be described as the practice of helping students to achieve critical consciousness." I had forgotten about the critical conciousness piece and I think that is very important as well!