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Paulo Freire was born in Recife, Brazil in 1921 to middle class parents. He and his family suffered great hardships during the depression of the 1930’s. Paulo took all the hardships that he endured during the depression, and learned from them. He then made it his personal crusade to help improve the welfare of as many people as he could worldwide. He particularly cared for the people that were poor and illiterate, or going through hard times, because he could empathize with them, and didn’t believe anyone deserved to live like that.

Paulo Freire was a highly educated man, and he thought everyone should be able to read and write. After he got married to Elza Maia, he was appointed Director of the Department of Education and Culture of the Social Service in the State of Pernambuco, the Brazilian state of which Recife is the capital. He worked mostly with the poor and literate, and since literacy was a requirement to vote in presidential elections, he made it his personal crusade to “embrace a non-orthodox form of what could be considered liberation theology” and teach everyone he could how to read, write, and how to look at things differently.

Another thing that I don’t think Paulo wouldn’t have been the same without is his brief stint in law school. If he hadn’t attended Law school, he wouldn’t have also studied philosophy, and then, maybe everything he has done for so many people would have never been. This also gave him a new teaching styles, and ideas on how to manipulate the brain to think in different ways. He also would have never had met his wife, who was on of his biggest influences and companions.

sources:

http://www3.nl.edu/academics/cas/ace/resources/paulofreire.cfm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVz_AOFuZ_E

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo_Freire#Recognition