![]() This diversion is understandable at a time of manufactured ignorance, the worship of celebrity culture, and an age in which historical memory becomes dangerous and dissent a curse. ![]() Ivy League schools will put out statements celebrating his work offering themselves as paragons of radical change, which of course is the opposite of what they believe in. In doing so, they will speak of Freire with a kind of depoliticising reverence that we often associate with the empty praise reserved for dead celebrities. Too many of them will treat him as iconic rather than as the revolutionary he actually was. There have been and will be many celebrations. He wrote the preface for my second book, Theory and Resistance in Education (Giroux, 1983), and we collaborated together until he died. ![]() ![]() ![]() We co-edited a book series and, along with Donaldo Macedo, got many of Freire’s books translated and published in the English-speaking world. Freire and I worked together for fifteen years, which I consider one of the most enlightening periods of my life. The centenary of Paulo Freire’s birthday was on 18 September this year. ![]()
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