We should make clear to them that it is irresponsible to suggest that reading something is easy. “I think we should talk with the students about all the implications of writing and reading. It means that keeping curiosity is absolutely indispensable for us to continue to be or to become ” (11). We have to become inserted in a permanent process of searching. There is a little difference between knowing intellectually that we are unfinished and assuming the nature of being unfinished. “I think that one of the best ways for us to work as human beings is not only to know that we are uncompleted beings but to assume the uncompleteness. Probably the most profound bit of the early chapters was this thread articulated by Freire on the notion that we are incomplete (“uncomplete,” in his phrasing) beings, and that learning is a generative part of the human experience – or maybe even of becoming human. education) and their efforts working within both grassroots and bureaucratic operations, I found two important themes in my own connection to them. While there are numerous avenues to explore in this work, including their influences, their critiques and histories with formal education (a la schooling vs. This squared with my understanding and experience with Freire’s work, and so it was great to dive deeper into Myles Horton’s story, and to explore the real bond that these two educators shared. Participation in turn is realized through an educational practice that itself is both liberatory and participatory, that simultaneously creates a new society and involves the people themselves in the creation of their own knowledge” (xxx). “Both men believe, then, real liberation is achieved through popular participation. The quote that frames the book for me, thus far, emerged from the introduction: You can also see what our other friends are sharing on via Twitter, using #HortonFreire.

I actually haven’t read Adam’s yet, mostly because I don’t want to just cut this post off and tell you to see his instead (although you probably should!). Bryan Alexander has a nice recap from chapters 1-2, as does Adam.

I’m going to loosely call this contribution Part 1 to Bryan Alexander’s Book Club reading of We Make the Road by Walking, and will hastily post where I am in the book – which is still into the first few chapters as of this posting.

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