Freire beleived that literacy was the key to a healthy and productive life. He taught over 300 sugarcane workers to read and write. This gave them the ability to vote and have a significant impact on their government as well as promote change. Freire compiled a deeper understanding of literacy in other countries while in exile. He used his knoweledge to help represent the lower class, because without a lower class vote, the needs of a country cannot be met. Freire's insightfull views had a great effect on his comrades.
Stephanie Gurry:
Stephanie discusses the important interactions between the student and teacher. Freire believed that everyone should learn how to speak properly and avoid slang, but under certain circumstances. In order to get through to a student the teacher must submit to their level of speaking and thinking patterns. The teacher needs to learn from the student just as the student is learning from their way of communicating.
Freire's ideas apply to this class because we are constantly interacting and sharing eachother's ideas on various topics, all of which relate to Latin America or the Caribbean. Freire constanly stressed the importance of learning from other's and understanding different cultures. Litereacy and Latin America are the main components of this class, as they were in Paulo Freire's life.
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