2 entries for Friday, June 12, 2020

[Swimming, one learns to swim. Working, one learns to work. Practicing, one learns to practice better.]

The difference between starting to learn a language with "Hi, How are you? My name is…" and starting to practice literacy with "school, land, cultivate, product". Can the pedagogical process for learning also be improved by focusing on the student's social context and the self-empowerment of self-expression?

We might underestimate the value of repetition: what is the value of repeating at every exercise "Practice to learn, learn to practice better"?

[The people have a right to seek a better understanding of themselves, rather than merely responding to researchers' questions.]

[The process of alphabetization must contribute to the people's remaking of themselves, with their history in their hands.]

[To be present in history means to be conscious of the difficulties in one's process of liberation. To be merely represented in history happens when passively accepting how another recounts.]

[Alphabetization needs to be grounded in the political activation of its students. Mechanical training in linguistics will lead them to be represented in history as opposed to present within it.]