True Generosity In Paulo Freire's Pedagogy Of The Oppressed

In Paulo Freire’s book Pedagogy of the Oppressed, there are a mix of different hypotheses. Freire explains a hypothesis of persecution and the start of happiness. In his point of view, the way to finding freedom is the awakening of critical awareness and the thinking process of the person. One of the ways to climb out of oppression is through true generosity:

True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. False charity constrains the fearful and subdued, the “rejects of life,” to extend their trembling hands. True generosity lies in striving so that these hands – whether of individuals or entire peoples – need to be extended less and less in supplication, so that more and more they become human hands which work, and working, transform the world (45).

Throughout the years that I have been attending school, I have had many teachers be very generous to me. For the rest of my essay, I 'm going to be talking about how one

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