Pedagogy Of The Oppressed By Stephen R. Herr And Paolo Freire Analysis

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“It’s Harder Now to Change Student’s Lives, but No Less Important” isn’t just an average writing piece, it is a writing piece that truly catches the eye; Stephen R. Herr does this by not only portraying a strong, academic message throughout his words, he also eloquently places his words in such a way which significantly affects the piece as a whole. However, this was all not luck of the draw; Herr knew what he was doing from the beginning by knowing certain writing techniques such as focusing on a specific audience, knowing his own position, using rhetorical moves, and much more. Herr is aware that before he can first begin anywhere, he must first focus on his audience and how he can sculpt his work to appeal …show more content…

Herr and Paolo Freire, author of “Pedagogy of The Oppressed” have similar mindsets and writing techniques. Throughout Herr’s entire piece, he expresses his feelings towards college education in today’s society. As we all know, he does not approve of it. So, it is necessarily true that Herr thinks everyone should experience his time while he was in college with professor Ayoub. Like Stephen Herr, he is not the only one who disapproves of education today, Paolo Freire does as …show more content…

Herr and Paolo Freire are both influential philosophical authors who understand have somehow looked beyond the lines when it comes to education. Herr has learned more through personal experience while Freire hasn’t exactly discussed how he as acquired such knowledge, but is on the right track because he has similar attributes to Herr. This is why there are little stakes between choosing a theory over the other. However, there are some. While choosing Herr over Freire, students will have more of a wide-broad selection of freedom to explore the greatest depths of their imagination to become successful. However, not every student would be able to handle this well like Herr did in his college experience. If you were to choose Freire over Herr, The student and the teacher would be both in a mutual atmosphere while becoming successful. The student would be able to move on in the world knowing the he/she is not the only one being mentally aided through their college

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