Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 50th Anniversary Edition

Great book to help you examine your role in current society and the roll we all play in continuing the structures of oppression

Absolutely hateful literature that opposes everything Western Civilization stands for. This text merely buys into the ideological insanity born from Marxist class warfare, extended to the intersectionality of race, and subsequently all infinite categories of oppression.

This is little more than fuel to the fire that will one day very likely destroy liberty in Western Civilization.

I purchased this book for a college course. However, the language was extremely difficult to follow. With a professor to decipher some of the wording, I came to realize that this book may be a true masterpiece. I simply wish it were easier to follow. Nonetheless this was a great read!

Anyone thinking this is about the problems facing teaching or the education system should just look elsewhere. The author proposes a return to the ideologies of Lenin and Mao. A closer look will also reveal a clear sympathy with Mao's systematic killing of intellectuals during Mao's 100 Flowers Campaign as the author points to the alleged political extremes as the source of all our problems. It's hard to miss when you review just the works cited but the text reinforces the message. For those with doubts, Google the author's name for the controversy behind his politics. Now, even if this is your cup of tea, this work remains anchored more in the past than the present.

Used product to improve my teaching. This is a classic in the field and predates all these touchy-feely, lower-the-bar styles of relating to today’s students.

I got this for school for my leadership class in my master’s program. It reminds me of a philosophy book but still fit great in my non philosophy class. I would recommend everyone please read this, it was eye opening and really moved me.

Eye opening and mind blowing.

Paulo Freire is responsible for the failed Brazilian education. All his methods created was a generation that has the lowest scores in all Student Assessments, a generation that hardly knows how to read. Freire's method is a fraud. He used education as a revenge. The so-called "revolutionary method" of adult literacy that he created was a scam! And this fraud is widely idolized to this day in several Brazilian universities. Paulo Freire was never an educator, but a political and ideological theorist who publicly defended communist utopia and socialist regimes. Don't waste your money buying this book.

Must read book for anyone that is interested in equity.

Great book, but why in the world would you leave all block quotes untranslated into english? Marx is quoted in Spanish, Lukacs is quoted in French...poor praxis in a book about pedagogy