Freire Reading

Reading Paulo Freire's article, "Pedagogy of the Oppressed", was informative. In an ideal world Freire's ideas of emancipation for all could be achieved. One of the main goals of education should be to create social change to better the lives of all people. It should inform the masses of injustices and create a new social order base on equality. Freire’s ideas are idealistic and sometimes lack practicality. Freire states, “But while to say the true word – which is work, which is praxis – is to transform the world, saying that word is not the privilege of some men, but the right of every man.” (pg. 125) I agree that every person in society has the right to be valued equally, but I am unsure if every person has the ability to implement social change. An interesting endorsement of this reading can be found in the following link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj4SGO4iO9M .