![]() ![]() According to Freire, those who approach education with the banking method view it as an exercise in rote memorization and blind acceptance of a list of facts, procured by the teacher. ![]() The students know nothing and must learn by receiving “deposits” of knowledge. Pedagogy of the Oppressed starts off with a critique of what Freire calls the “banking method” of education, in which the teacher is the sole arbiter of truth. ![]() What follows is a critique of Freire’s work, one that points out the flaws of using his work as a model for revolutionary organizing. The debate centers around revolutionary organization, what the orientation of revolutionaries should be, how we engage with the broader Left, and what methods are needed to politically develop the revolutionary vanguard and the broader working-class and oppressed masses.Ī faction within the RSOP raised Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed as a model that revolutionaries can use to answer some of the issues raised in the debate. In the past few weeks a debate has been taking place inside the recently formed Revolutionary Socialist Organizing Project (RSOP). ![]()
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