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’m a teacher, though for older (late high school) kids. I don’t have any kids of my own, don’t plan to, and don’t particularly like being around them when I’m not at work. I really enjoy my job, but it is a job. Kids are exhausting, and while I don’t hate them, I do find it kind of puzzling why people want to have their own. I also think that it’s at least a little morally questionable to bring new people into the world considering what their lives are likely to be like over the next century or so. I’m not really an anti-natalist, but I think I would feel bad about consigning a human being to living through what we have every reason to think is going to be a very rough time, and I don’t think that’s a reactionary viewpoint. I do think we have a strong responsibility to do the absolute best we can for the kids that are here, and (as I said) I really like my job. I just also like being able to go home in the evening and not keep dealing with kids.
You can decide to not have kids, that’s fine. At the point where you decide other people shouldn’t have kids for whatever reason is where it gets real iffy real fast.
Yep, agreed. I have lots of friends with kids. It’s not for me and I have a hard time getting the appeal, but people do all sorts of things that I don’t understand the appeal of. That’s fine by me.
“shouldn’t” as in moral prescription or “shouldn’t” as in hey we should use the government to enforce this somehow?
i think people shouldn’t cheat on their intimate partner(s) but i don’t think there’s any way for a state to enforce that without increasing harm.
Not reactionary. Maybe a little utilitarian. But like the good kind of utilitarianism that actually cares about people.