Paulo Freire, born on the 19th of September in 1921, was a Brazilian philosopher and radical pedagogue most known for his 1968 work Pedagogy of the Oppressed. “Language is never neutral.”
Paulo was born in Recife, the capital of the northeastern Brazilian state of Pernambuco. Initially affluent, his family experienced hardship during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and Freire’s education suffered due to his own experiences with poverty and hunger.
Freire began working as a schoolteacher in the 1940s, beginning to serve as the director of the Pernambuco Department of Education and Culture in 1946. Due to the 1964 Brazilian coup d’état, where a military dictatorship was put in place with the support of the United States, Paulo Freire was exiled from his home country, an exile that lasted 16 years.
Freire then worked in Chile, until April 1969 when he accepted a temporary position at Harvard University. It was during this period, in 1968, that Freire published his most famous work, “Pedagogy of the Oppressed”.
In this text, Freire criticizes what he calls the “banking method” of education, wherein a teacher “deposits” knowledge into an empty vessel, the student, or “bank”. Instead, Freire calls upon teacher to engage in a more dialog-centric or creative education, one in which the suppressed experiences of the oppressed help create knowledge, fostering a social reality in which the marginalized are humanized.
Pedagogy of the Oppressed has since become the third most cited book in the social sciences, according to Elliott D. Green. As of 2000, the book had sold over 750,000 copies worldwide.
“Manipulation, sloganizing, depositing, regimentation, and prescription cannot be components of revolutionary praxis, precisely because they are the components of the praxis of domination.”
Paulo Freire
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Pokémon Sapphire play through the rules I subjected myself to were:
No non gen III Pokémon. (I bent this for awhile because Teleport is too useful to not have before getting Fly but eventually I swapped out my Alakazam).
No Pokémon with the same type. This includes mixed types. I have a Blaziken so no other fire or fighting etc.
No Pokémon with the same move. I replace the duplicate moves as soon as I can.
No Pokémon in the storage box long term. My 6 Pokémon are the only ones I have, I will catch Pokémon temporarily to trade and release them etc, But I’m emptying the box as soon as I can. I have a family member playing Ruby so I have traded them good Pokémon like Kyogre and the previously mentioned Alakam.
No legendaries
The HM Pokémon has to be trained to the same level as my other Pokémon.
I’ve got Sceptile, Blaziken, Swampert, Absol, Skamory and Linoone.
(that sounds fun, I’ve been wanting to play that one cool Crystal ROMhack. Liquid Crystal? Crystal Clear? Something like that)
Oh no I thought it was Gen 3 because it seemed pretty new to me, which is weird because Gen 2 is the one I played the most as a kid.
Okay it can be like the “No Homers” club. We can have one non gen 3. Or I guess I’m catching an Altaria.
Skarmory’s cool though, I say keep it and make it a No Homers rule imho
Gen2 is my fav too, FR/LG are the only ones I played after that
Playthroughs were you pretend to be a gym leader and have a type/theme restriction are fun too
Yeah I’m thinking about doing the monotype next go around.
Love monotype runs, since I’m edgy I always make my type dark type lmao
I did that with water types in Crystal
Feraligator, Lanturn, Kingdra, Quagsire, Lapras, Starmie
Had to cheese a little to spoof the Staryu with the gen1 teleport tm to get around not having a flyer but it was fun
I was like that with Slugma because it’s so far back in gen 2. Thought it was a gen 3 'mon.