My last conversation with Paulo Freire

摘要

I was traveling, at the end of April 1997, to Madrid from Los Angeles where Ihave lived for almost two decades, to participate in a conference organized bythe Universidad Complutense and the University of California.On the way to the airport I had a sudden impulse to call Paulo Freire. I cannotrecall why I felt such urgency, but we had been planning to write a booktogether about new educational challenges at the threshold of the XXI century.The book had a tentative title: Education and the Possible Dream.We wanted to update the discussion about some of Paulo’s great theses andthink about ways to implement them in classrooms of the advanced capitalistworld. We wanted, to use a phrase dear to Paulo, to “reinvent and not to repeatPaulo Freire.”