Hello! The topic is "a person that I admire". I study Elementary Education and the person that I chose is Paulo Freire, a Brazilian educator representative of the critic pedagogy. He was born in 1921 and died in 1997. The book that I love (I really love) is “Cartas a quien pretende enseñar” (“Letters to whom pretends to teach”), wich has twelve letters with some “rules” for teachers to follow in order to be good educators. One example of them is that kids shouldn't call us “aunt”, because we don’t have a familiar relationship with them, we are the teachers. To say “aunt” it's like saying that I am a caring person who doesn't rebel against the system, and this it's very bad because the teachers are the persons who have to change all that is wrong in the current educational system.
Another one of his books is “La pedagogía del oprimido” (“The pedagogy of the oppressed”) and it's about the education that tries to make employees. It states that nowadays the important is not to educate for making intelligent people, but trying to create employees that work for a little money; cheap labor that doesn't complain because they don't have too many other job options.
Another one of his books is “La pedagogía del oprimido” (“The pedagogy of the oppressed”) and it's about the education that tries to make employees. It states that nowadays the important is not to educate for making intelligent people, but trying to create employees that work for a little money; cheap labor that doesn't complain because they don't have too many other job options.
