Foreword: Memory's hope in the shadow of paulo freire's presence

Paulo Freire tells a story in one of the chapters in this book about being asked by someone “What can we do in order to follow you?” Paulo, in typical form, answers “If you follow me, you destroy me. The best way for you to understand me is to reinvent me and not to try to become adapted to me.” Paulo had little patience with education as either a form of training, method, or as a political and moral practice that closed down history, the …