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Volume 10, No. 1The Ubiquity Of Wars And The “Good Danger” Of Praxis

Published March 11, 2024

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For a long time, great thinkers like Noam Chomsky and Paulo Freire, among many others, have always been viewed as “dangerous” and even more so in recent days and years.  Both are illustrious thinkers and actors who are considered radicals in their own ways, given their defiance against the “banking system” of education; while both men simultaneously pinpoint the “paradoxes of democracy” that hamper creativity and independent thinking of students, educators, administrators, and leaders.  Chomsky and Freire have dedicated their work that cultivates the power of language as a means for educational emancipation, intellectual freedom, and social empowerment within overarching universal principles of humanity, justice, and equity. For them, language is the currency for understanding the world realities and the essence of what it means to be human free from bias or prejudice.  As such, education should be grounded in emancipation rather than oppression, enlightenment rather than ignorance, and empathy rather than apathy. More importantly, education should be praxis-based in which learners and educators are not brainwashed but constantly brain-triggered to freely dialogue, interact, think, reflect, analyze, apply, and take action to become skillful rather than full of skills.

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