Assignment 1b

Paulo freire was a brazilian educator that wanted to help people become smarter and make reform efforts to in schools of brazil. Born in recife, Brazil September 19, 1921 he always want to help people with education or be involved in teaching in some way. Because of the amount of work he did on literacy training in the northwestern, he was very recoginized international for his work. Alot of his peers would say that he was a caring person who want to help students with problems or show them new thing to learn about. He grew up with a lifestyle of stuggle, proverty, an exile enviornment and alot of violence around him as a child.

Paulo had wrote a few books after he was released from jail, the most significant book that he is known from is the pedagogyof the oppresed in 1970. The book had talked about topics of culture from money banking, empowermant and humanization. From the few concepts, people could relate and understand how all the information freire had given was interesting and very true. All of freire theories and objective idealism had open a window of new information that people all around the world could learn about. Married a grade school teacher named eliza maia costa who had three daughters of her own.

The biggest event to happen to Paulo was in late 1960's, when Havard university had sent an invitation to be a professor at the prestige college. Thats when he left Latin america to teach studies and development classes until the early 1970's. About may 1997, he died in the city of Rio de janerio where in Brazil and all over the world he left a legacy as a Great educator that made change in the world for alot of his students and readers of his books.
http://www.nl.edu/academics/cas/ace/resources/paulofreire.cfm
http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-freir.htm
http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~sibrown/freire.htm