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
Wish I still taught my section 8 housing students. But I jumped districts and now teach in the burbs. I do not want to spend another second explaining to Tanner’s mom that, no, he cannot just call other students gay because they don’t have Teslas.
Christ alive yh the extension of the entitlement of bougie kids to their parents is actually really the thing that get’s to me.
I remember telling one kid who’d just spent the class spouting insane misogynistic shit that it was unacceptable and that i’d be discussing it with his parents, and he told me he didn’t care because he was getting picked up by his maid.