Update

I figured I’d update. I was looking through my older entries and I noticed that my posts have devolved from convicted proclamations and inquisitive inquiries to random quotes, essays, summaries, or confounding mindless emotions. I’d like to write more on the idiosyncratic. I enjoy the details that weave the greater fabric of life together. These are the details that get overlooked; that are too readily assumed. I want to challenge the minutia.

I’m finishing up reading Pedagogy of the Oppressed. I’m going to start work on an analysis essay that examines the philosophy of Freire, Dewey and Rousseau as they relate to freedom, motivation and education. I think there is a line that needs to be explored in education where too much freedom leads to otiose behavior, while not enough stifles the possibility of developing a critical consciousness. I think this is a huge point that should be explored. I’m sure other authors have written about them, but the three educational philosophers I’ll be addressing have not adequately, to my knowledge, remedied what appears to be a dilemma.

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