Paulo Reglus Neves Freire September May was a Brazilian educator and philosopher who was a leading advocate of critical pedagogy. His influential work Pedagogy of the Oppressed is generally considered one of the foundational texts of the critical pedagogy movement, and was the Ver ms. Freire was born on September to a middle-class family in Recife, the capital of the northeastern Brazilian state of Pernambuco. He became familiar with poverty and hunger from an early age as a result of the Ver ms. There is no such thing as a neutral education process. Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate the integration of generations into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity to it, or it becomes the practice of Ver ms. Adult education Michael Apple John Asimakopoulos Clodomir Santos de Morais Ver ms. Since the publication of the English-language edition in , Pedagogy of the Oppressed has had a large impact in education and pedagogy worldwide, especially as a
