Problem-posing education does not and cannot serve the interests of the oppressor. No oppressive order could permit the oppressed to begin to question: Why?
Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in “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.
Implicit in the banking concept [of education] is the assumption of a dichotomy between human beings and the world: a person is merely in the world, not with the world or with others…In this view, the person is not a conscious being (corpo consciente); he or she is rather the possessor of a consciousness: an empty “mind” passively open to the reception of deposits of reality from the world outside.
https://envs.ucsc.edu/internships/internship-readings/freire-pedagogy-of-the-oppressed.pdf
I would say in the current world not “it’s selfish to have children” but “it’s cruel to your future children to bring them into this world”
Idk if you’ve noticed this but the planet’s on fire and the people capable of fixing that are instead trying their hardest to ensure nothing is ever done about it.
That sentence opener wasn’t needed and it makes it hard to respond gracefully to it. I’ll try anyway: Some people will need to exist after our time, and if those people have at least an opportunity to be raised to care about other people and to want to mitigate and maybe undo the damage, I’d rather have that than some generational lay-down-and-die act of doomer purity.