Book, Education and change[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. "Paulo Freire analyzes possibilities of the education system in the process of social change. Originally written in Spanish and published for the first time in Brazil in 1979, Education and Change coincides with Paulo Freire's return to the country, after his forced exile by the civil dictatorship- Brazilian military. Four studies form this book, which addresses the most different aspects of man's relationship and his being in the world. We see here how commitment to one's own reality is the key to making all people feel like they belong to society and can transform it. “When a human being intends to imitate another, he is no longer himself. Likewise, the slavish imitation of other cultures produces an alienated society or object society. The more someone wants to be someone else, the less he is himself The alienated society is not aware of its own existence. An alienated professional is an inauthentic being. His thinking is not committed to himself, he is not responsible. The alienated being does not look at reality with personal criteria, but with other people's eyes. That is why he lives in an imaginary reality and not his own objective reality. Live through the vision of another country. You live in Russia or the United States, but you don’t live in Chile, Peru, Guatemala or Argentina.” "