Assignment 3c

The points brought out by Matthew McDonald (http://mattymcd11.blogspot.com/2008/06/assignment-1b.html) were very much in line with most of the students' comments. How true that in order for a culture to progress and enlighten, an interchange of ideas must take place so that learning (literacy) can grow and thus ideas for the bettering of the people, whether it be a need to vote or growth and concern for each other from within.

The point of Paulo Freire's imprisonment and exile is well taken in that an attempt to quiet him, he was enabled to bring his ideas to other countries as well as bring back the experience to help the educational system in his home country. It may have prepared him more fully through his experiences to accomplish his original goals.

As we share and learn from each other's 'takes' on the information, we too gain experience and knowledge from the interchange of ideas and ideals.

Breanna (http://bree06.blogspot.com/2008/06/paulo-freire-assignment-1b.html) shared the points that Paulo's personal experience of being poor as a child and among the illiterate may very well have been the experienced that bent him in the direction of becoming an educator and feeling for the people who needed an education to better themselves.
She also brought out the point of his stressing the importance of dialog in learning about human beings. It is true that you certainly cannot fully comprehend the needs and feelings and sometimes even the true thoughts of people through books alone. Personal contact and dialog is crucial to this.

Freire would be proud at the efforts we are all sharing in trying to incorporate his ideas into this class and would probably sit back and let us discover for ourselves that this works. With the dialog about him from different students doing research on his life and accomplishments, we get a better understanding of the person, that could only be improved on if we were able to talk with him personally.