Empowering the Oppressed: Freires Pedagogy for Equality and Liberation

Name Institutional affiliation Date In most cases, when people feel oppressed, they tend to act on it in revolutions or rebellion. But as Freire suggests, there are other ways of dealing with oppression and categorically tries to give insight on the actual source of oppression or the feeling/notion of being oppressed. Pedagogy of the Oppressed is based on the grounds of how people understand themselves as human beings. It is here that the author talks of oppression being a damaged sense of self and equates liberation with human identity (Freire, 2018). Therefore, the oppressor becomes the enemy to the people trying to find their identity. People are usually not so genuine or ultimately generous in the efforts of helping the oppressed. Only through this realization that only the oppressed can rise and fight their own battles without necessarily relying on external people or factors. According to Freire (2018), the key to redemption is education. ` Apparently, Freire has categorically criticized how education has turned out to be in the essence that it is usually not done in the right manner. The author has