Education; Paulo Freire; Teaching; Teaching praxis

Abstract

Autobiographic story about my relation as a young teaching student with Paulo Freire. His invitation to an intense, passionate, joyful, and recreational dialogue marked in my inerasable tracks. He taught me that education is conservation and change, simple and complex, innocent and not ingenuous, political and always inedited in the experience of the students. Facing mistakes he was able to rescue me as a future professor with the hope that education is possible and not leaving me as a future bored professor and unconfident about my own skills and my professor’s.

His example guides my teaching praxis and illuminates me to learn from the innocent and non ingenuous questions of my students. One of them teaches me one of the most radical learning that I have had: education is possibility.