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A Brief Biography of Paulo Freire
by Leslie Bentley
(Current: 12/99)

EDUCATOR PAULO FREIRE was born September 19, 1921. He grew up in the Northeast of Brazil where his experiences deeply influenced his life work. The world economic crisis forced Freire to know hunger and poverty at a young age. He recalls in Moacir Gadotti’s book, Reading Paulo Freire, “I didn’t understand anything because of my hunger. I wasn’t dumb. It wasn’t lack of interest. My social condition didn’t allow me to have an education. Experience showed me once again the relationship between social class and knowledge” (5). Because Freire lived among poor rural families and laborers, he gained a deep understanding of their lives and of the effects of socio-economics on education.

Freire became a grammar teacher while still in high school. Even then his intuition pushed him toward a dialogic education in which he strived to understand students’ expectations (5). While on the Faculty of Law in Recife, Freire met his wife, Elza Maia Costa de Oliveira, an elementary school teacher and an important

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Paulo Freire

Paulo Freire (September 19, 1921 - May 2, 1997) was an educator born in Brazil. He worked at the University of Recife. He developed new ideas about education for the oppressed - people who have been trodden down.

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"There is no such thing as a neutral education process. Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate the integration of generations into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity to it, or it becomes the ‘practice of freedom’, the means by which men and women deal critically with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world."
— Richard Shaull, drawing on Paulo Freire^[1]

Paulo Freire wrote about the philosophy of education that came not only from old school such as Plato, but also from modern Marxist and anti-colonialist thinkers. His book Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1970) may be best read as an extension of, or reply to, Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth (1961), which emphasized the need to provide native popul

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Biography

Born in Recife (PE), the Brazilian educator Paulo Freire (1921-1997) is recognized worldwide as one of the most important thinkers in the history of education, for his commitment to the liberation of oppressed classes, through work that develops critical awareness and involves pedagogical, critical and transformative dialogue.

Military dictatorship – arrested in 1964, Paulo Freire spent 70 days in a barracks cell in Olinda (PE). On discovering that he was a teacher, one of the officers asked him to tech some of the recruits to read and write, and the educator explained that he had been imprisoned for the exact reason that he was teaching people to read and write.

In 1980, after 16 years in exile, Paulo returned to Brazil to “re-learn” his country, as he said at the time. He lectured at the State University of Campinas (Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)) and at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo – (PUC-SP)). The Professor and coordinator of the Cathedra Paulo Freire at PUC-SP, Ana Maria Saul, was