Questioning the True Purpose of Education

Описание: This video cuts through the hype around educational technology to ask the question Paulo Freire would ask: Has anything actually changed?

We're obsessed with innovation. AI tutors, tablets in every hand, smart boards on every wall. Billions spent on devices and software. But if students are still passive receivers of information instead of active questioners, if teachers still lecture at them instead of engaging in real dialogue, if curiosity gets labeled as disruption and punished accordingly, then we've just put expensive wallpaper on the same broken system.

Freire didn't care about devices. He cared about consciousness. About people understanding the world deeply enough to actually transform it, not just consume it.

Real education isn't about upgrading classrooms with the latest tech. It's about fundamentally transforming the power dynamics between teachers and students. It's about creating spaces where students challenge assumptions, interrogate power structures, and read reality as critically as they read textbooks.

That kind of education is uncomfortable. It's risky. It demands courage from teachers willing to share authority and agency from students ready to claim it. You can't buy that transformation with an app subscription or a new learning management system.

The future of education isn't about better devices. It's about better questions. It starts with one simple act: questioning everything. Including the very systems we've built around learning. Including this video itself.

What power dynamics exist in your classroom or learning environment? Who gets to ask questions? Who gets to decide what matters? Start there.

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