Freire states "Knowledge only through invention and reinvention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other." Freire uses synonyms like "restless, impatient, continuing," and "hopeful" to get his point across because he is emphasizing how one must obtain knowledge properly. Freire is trying to say that the only way to learn is to go over things over and over again until it is burned into your head and, perhaps, when you follow these guidelines he has placed for everyone, all people bettering themselves through education will somehow unite as one community.
Comparing my Science teacher, Mr. Bosher, with Freire's idea of learning in some forms is similar and, in other ways it is very different. Freire's philosophy toward learing seems to be more dilligent and a "practice makes perfect" kind of teaching style. Where Mr. Bosher did believe in homework and studying, he didn't practice that form of teaching in class. He prefered a more enlightening approach where he would show you something out of the ordinary in an attempt to make that experience stick in your mind. I've always been more of a visual and verbal learner, than a work horse for studying, so I would probably have struggled with Freire as a teacher. Saying that one learning style is the best is impossible to determine because no one person learns the same way or at the same pace. It doesn't make Freire wrong in the sense that studying and working extra hard won't work for someone because it definetly does, however, it isn't superior to other styles of getting the knowledge of one into the mind of the next
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
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