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...person's own laziness, or of an exploitative landlord? This is the process of conscientizacan--gaining an awareness of the social, political, and economic dialectical relationships that are reality-defining. (Friere perceives all problems as occurring in dialectical pairs.) An absolutely fundamental dialectic is that of oppressor--oppressed, and here the educational task for both teachers and students is to become aware of the oppressor in the outside world and in one's own head. Such reflection leads to action to rid oneself of that oppressor--education as praxis--and praxis leads to liberation:"...the action and reflection...
Throughout the book Freire contracts his methods and his theory with those of the oppressors. His use of cooperation vs. their use of conquest, the oppressor's need for unity vs. the oppressor's need for divisiveness, organization vs. manipulation, and cultural synthesis vs. cultural invasion. He sees oppressors as being anything but stupid and stresses the necessity for knowing their methods...
...came from civil rights leaders. Clarence Mitchell, chief Washington lobbyist for the N.A.A.C.P., poured it on: "The Rehnquist nomination raises grim warnings. Through that nomination the foot of racism is placed in the door of the temple of justice. The Rehnquist record tells us that the hand of the oppressor will be given a chance to write opinions that will seek to turn back the clock of progress. We hope the nomination will be rejected because it is an insult to Americans who support civil rights...
Academic Freedom. The University of Buenos Aires, the main organ for propagating European classical-humanist traditions, oppresses national forces of creative self-determination by institutionalizing the imitation of models from the oppressor cultures and by mouthing their ideology ("free trade," "liberalism," and the one crop economy). Professors of course portray the university as "an island of democracy" in a sea of whatever (familiar words on American campuses), obscuring its reactionary political alignment...
...plans to shut up the pro-war speakers Friday are both wrong and stupid. By mimicking opponents who are totalitarian in outlook, our radicals suggest that the whole choice lies between the totalitarians in power and those lusting after it. The "masses," unless starving, have always chosen "the oppressor they know and love...