![]() But without struggle, hope, as an ontological need, dissipates, loses its bearings, and turns into hopelessness. He continues: “Without a minimum of hope, we cannot so much as start the struggle. I am hopeful, not out of mere stubbornness, but out of an existential, concrete imperative.” “I do not understand human existence, and the struggle needed to improve it, apart from hope and dream…. ![]() The Brazilian educator penned his most famous work, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, while in exile in Chile in the 1960s, and he spent his life teaching and working for liberation.īy the time he writes Pedagogy of Hope, Freire has surely seen his share of hopelessness. Paulo Freire begins his 1992 book, Pedagogy of Hope, with a comment from a friend who asks how he could write about hope “in the shameless hellhole of corruption like the one strangling us in Brazil today?”įreire, a pioneer in pedagogical thought, argues that the educator’s role is to prepare students to think critically and solve problems collectively. Today, as the world comes to grips with the election of an imminently dangerous individual as president of the United States, may we renew our commitment to care for each other, to reject the mistreatment of all human beings and the earth, to speak out, to learn, to fight - and yes, to hope.Ĭoordinator, Committee on U.S.-Latin American Relations (CUSLAR) ![]() ![]() Freire wrote from exile after a fascist military takeover of his native Brazil 50 years ago. ![]() This reflection on Paulo Freire’s call for an education in hope was first published in 2013 in the CUSLAR Newsletter. ![]()
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