Questioning Authority: Freire's Legacy

If every side of politics dislikes you… you’re probably telling the truth. Paulo Freire gets

attacked from every direction, and that tells you everything. Conservatives say

he weaponizes education. Leftists claim he's not revolutionary enough. Academics dismiss

him as unscientific. Governments call him dangerous. But here's what they all miss: Freire

didn't create an ideology to follow. He created a method to dismantle all of them.

His entire pedagogy is built on one idea: teaching people to question the structures that

claim to protect them. He called it conscientization. The process of recognizing that what you've

been told is natural is actually constructed. That your obedience was manufactured. That the system