Education for freedom

When you talk about education, the first thing that comes to your mind it's the School as the biggest institution to find that tools that will let you know everything that you need to “be someone” in the life, and then comes the others obligatory steps to catch that goal: the institutes, the universities, etc.

But when you talk to me about education I see just one thing: find your freedom to be a better person for this world. That’s the idea that I want to share to you.

There are too many thinkers in the history of education but two, in particular, has caught my attention: Paulo Freire and Silvio Gallo.

These men are both Brazilians but they lived in different ages but this wasn’t a problem to think in the same way about education. They two want the freedom for the people in the world.

Let me start talking a little about Paulo Freire. He was born in Recife in 1921. In his childhood he met the poorness because the crisis of 1929. He realized his studies in the Recife University where he learned Laws, Education and Social service.

His knowledge about the poor families and his vocation guide him to work all his life going to help to the needy people and this also let him write about education as a libertarian process and not as a tool of the capitalism to create cheap manufacture.

Otherwise, Silvio Gallo is actually a professor in the State University of Campinas in Brazil. He’s 48 years old, he studied in the Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas where learned philosophy. In 1990 he realized his master in education in the State University of Campinas, where He made his seminary titled “Educação anarquista: por uma pedagogia do risco” (Anarchist Education: a pedagogy of risk). After that He will became a Doctor in Education in the same university and work until now into the change of the concept of education trying to make it a space for the search of liberty for the human being.

I absolutely love the proposal of this two men because reflect completely my way to think the education and a concrete way to make changes in our society.