Paulo Freire's views on Teaching and education.

Paulo Freire's views on Teaching and education.
I was reading about this great man from Brazil, who was able to think deeply , about the methodology of teaching and children psychology. His educational theory , places emphasis on some very critical teaching points , very much lacking in today’s education system. He clearly reflects the gaps present in , what teaching is meant to be and way it is presented in practice.A revolutionary in the field of education and teaching methodology, one needs to learn a lot from this critical thinker. His own experience, while growing up with poor kids, reflects in his concern for their education .Below are some of his views

Finally, it is important to make it clear that imagination is not an exercise for those detached from reality, those who live in the air. On the contrary, when we imagine something, we do it necessarily conditioned by a lack in our concrete reality. When children imagine free and happy schools, it is because their real schools deny them freedom and happiness.

Educators need to know what happens in the world of the children with whom they work. They need to know the universe of their dreams, the language with which they skillfully defend themselves from the aggressiveness of their world, what they know independently of the school, and how they know it.

...teaching cannot be a process of transference of knowledge from the one teaching to the learner. This is the mechanical transference from which results machine like memorization, which I have already criticized. Critical study correlates with teaching that is equally critical, which necessarily demands a critical way of comprehending and of realizing the reading of the word and that of the world, the reading of text and of context.