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The method of learning of Paulo Freire requires that students do more than
simply reproduce the words that already exist. It requires that they create their
own words, words that allow them to become aware of reality in order to fight
for their own emancipation. Without this, some people acquire a kind of naive
consciousness in which they are aware of their situation but don't make any
effort to change it; they take a conformist stance and consider their situation
something normal, even to the point of supporting it themselves. Other
individuals construct their own reality and liberate themselves from
oppression, only to go to the opposite extreme and become the antithesis of
what they were fighting against (Gibson,2006). Freire advocates an education
that is based on experience, we just dont learn from school and from our
teachers we also need to learn from our own experiences. To know from our
experiences is to be able to learn to face the same problem if we encounter it
again.
When the individual does not fight for his interests and for cultural and
social emancipation, it seems that he has lost his love of life. Such is the