Paulo Freire, born in 1921, was an extraordinary person. His journey through the educational system in Brazil showed him poverty at first hand. His views of education and the connection of the student and teacher relationship seemed as one, the student was just as important as the teacher. His ideals of "banking" and bringing knowledge to the students. His quotes and literatures left behind still inspire and guide people today.
With Paulo's many accomplishments, it was no surprise when the mayor of Recife assigned Freire to be the leader of an adult literacy program for their town. In Paulo's first experiment for the company, he "taught 300 adults to read and write in forty five days." With his growing fame and his everlasting knowledge of teaching and learning the president of Brazil gave him the job of leading the National Literacy Program whose high success was expected to enroll approximately two million students in the year 1964. His fame and his teachings not only were in Brazil, but ranged even here to the United States.
Not only did Paulo Freire have literature in Brazil, but his books reached out and touched people around the world. "Freire wrote 25 books which were translated into 35 languages and was an honorary professor of 28 universities around the world" His knowledge leads him to the idea that illiteracy was the reason that there was poverty in the world. Freire's lectures and video's all demonstrate his commitment to the end of poverty and the beginning of equality for all. His preaching’s still motivating many people today.
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