Adrian Costache and Claudiu Gaiu, presents the book Pedagogy of Autonomy by Paolo Freire. It is the first work translated into Romanian by one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century. In the philosophy of education proposed by Paulo Freire, literacy and cultural edification lead to the acquisition of a political consciousness.

"It is impossible to become a critical teacher, if you repeat mechanically and by heart inert phrases and ideas, instead of provoking. The intellectual who memorizes (...), who talks about his readings as if reciting them from memory does not understand any relationship - even when it exists - between what he has read and what is happening in his country, in his city, in his neighborhood. (...) It's as if all the books he devotes so much time to have nothing to do with the reality of his world. The reality that the books deal with is the idealized one, of a school that disconnects more and more from the concrete." Paulo Freire

This event is part of Artă-mă. Reintroduction to artistic education #4.

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Adrian Costache is lect. dr. within the Department of Socio-Human Sciences Didactics at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences.

Claudiu Gaiu studied philosophy in Cluj, and then specialized in the history of modern philosophy through a doctorate at the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. He is the author of a monograph on a disciple of Montaigne, La prudence de l'homme d'esprit. L'ethique de Pierre Charron, Bucharest, 2010, and founding member of the Center for the Study of Modern Political Thought, an international association dedicated to the research of political philosophy between the 15th and 18th centuries.