Summary of the first two chapters of the book "Pedagogia da Autonomia", by Paulo Freire.
(original post, in portuguese, here)
Chapter 1. “There is no teaching without learning”
To teach is not to transmit knowledge, but to create possibilities for the student to form or construct that knowledge.
Education requires instigated, rigorously curious, humble and persistent educators;
There is no education without research nor research without education.
There needs to be respect for the students knowledge; there needs to be a search for the development of the student's critical, unsatisfied and restive curiosity.
Education requires aesthetics and ethics; it requires practicing what we preach for the example, so that the student feels secure in its argument.
Education requires risk, accepting the new and rejecting discrimination.
It requires critical reflexion about one's own education practice.
Educating requires recognition and appreciation of the student's cultural identity.
Chapter 2. “To teach is not to transmit knowledge”
Teaching requires awareness of the incompleteness, the integration of the incomplete subject in a permanent social process of research
The teacher must respect the student's autonomy and identity. He should also use his common sense, using it will allow him to overcome his instinctive evaluation and attitude towards the facts and events in which he is involved in.
Educating requires humbleness, tolerance and fighting for the rights of the educators; it requires apprehending reality.
Educating requires joy and hope; it requires the belief that change is possible.
Educating requires security, professional competence and generosity; it requires commitment.
Teaching is understanding that education is a form of intervention in the world.
Educating requires the ability to listen; it requires the realization that education is ideological and the openness for dialogue; it requires caring for the students.
(original post, in portuguese, here)
Chapter 1. “There is no teaching without learning”
To teach is not to transmit knowledge, but to create possibilities for the student to form or construct that knowledge.
Education requires instigated, rigorously curious, humble and persistent educators;
There is no education without research nor research without education.
There needs to be respect for the students knowledge; there needs to be a search for the development of the student's critical, unsatisfied and restive curiosity.
Education requires aesthetics and ethics; it requires practicing what we preach for the example, so that the student feels secure in its argument.
Education requires risk, accepting the new and rejecting discrimination.
It requires critical reflexion about one's own education practice.
Educating requires recognition and appreciation of the student's cultural identity.
Chapter 2. “To teach is not to transmit knowledge”
Teaching requires awareness of the incompleteness, the integration of the incomplete subject in a permanent social process of research
The teacher must respect the student's autonomy and identity. He should also use his common sense, using it will allow him to overcome his instinctive evaluation and attitude towards the facts and events in which he is involved in.
Educating requires humbleness, tolerance and fighting for the rights of the educators; it requires apprehending reality.
Educating requires joy and hope; it requires the belief that change is possible.
Educating requires security, professional competence and generosity; it requires commitment.
Teaching is understanding that education is a form of intervention in the world.
Educating requires the ability to listen; it requires the realization that education is ideological and the openness for dialogue; it requires caring for the students.