The methodology of the late Paulo Freire has helped to empower countless impoverished and illiterate people throughout the world. Freire’s work has taken on special urgency in the United States and Western Europe, where the creation of a permanent underclass among the underprivileged and minorities in cities and urban centers is increasingly accepted as the norm.
This work of Brazilian educator Paulo Freire on adult literacy to empower peasants farmers grew into a general methodology of deconstructing modern schooling and reconstructing ways of learning and education dedicated to liberation, both political and social.
This pamphlet features the first chapter of his most important book, in which Freire argues why it is necessary to develop a "pedagogy of the oppressed".