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Possession -- whether material or conceptual -- should not allow contempt towards those who own less.

A Superiority Complex is dehumanizing and affects both the user and the sufferer.

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"Those truly committed to liberation must reject the banking concept in its
entirety, adopting instead a concept of women and men as conscious beings, and
consciousness as consciousness intent upon the world." (p. 7)

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What does it mean when we think about the content of education as information?

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"Yet only through communication can human life hold meaning." (p5)

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"Based on a mechanistic, static, naturalistic, spatialized view of consciousness, it transforms students into receiving objects. It attempts to control thinking and action, leads women and men to adjust to the world, and inhibits their creative power." (6)

I would like to better understand what Freire meant in his use of the words "mechanistic, static, naturalistic" and "spatialized" when describing consciousness.

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"Knowledge emerges only through invention and reinvention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry, human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other." pg. 2

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"Knowledge emerges only through invention and reinvention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry, human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other." pg. 2

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"...'changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them;' for the more the oppressed can be led to adapt to that situation, the more easily they can be dominated." (p3)

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Attempting to be more

human, individualistically, leads to

having more, egotistically a form of dehumanization. Not that it is not fundamental to have in order to be

human. Precisely because it

is necessary, some men‘s  having

must not be allowed to constitute an obstacle to others

having,  must not consolidate the power of the former to crush the latter.

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fail to acknowledge men and women as historical beings

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Indeed, in contrast to other animals who are unfinished, but not historical, people know themselves to be unfinished; they are aware of their incompletion. In this incompletion and this awareness lie the very roots of education as an exclusively human manifestation. The unfinished character of

human beings and the transformational character of reality necessitate that education be an ongoing activity.

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Attempting to be more human, individualistically, leads to having more, egotistically a form of dehumanization.

Not that it is not fundamental to have in order to be human. Precisely because it is necessary, some men‘s having

must not be allowed to constitute an obstacle to others having, must not consolidate the power of the former to crush the latter.