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Knowledge and power — the main claim?
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Whoever controls what counts as knowledge holds power over those who learn it; knowledge is never just neutral facts.
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Foucault's 'power/knowledge'?
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Power and knowledge produce each other — whoever has power shapes what counts as knowledge, and knowledge hands power back.
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Plato on who should have knowledge?
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Only the wise guardians truly grasp what is good, so only they should hold real knowledge and rule.
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Plato's guardians?
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His trained ruling class who alone truly grasp what is good — so Plato trusts knowledge (and rule) to the few.
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Freire: education as liberation?
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Real education frees people to question and change their world, not 'banking' facts into passive students.
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The 'banking' model of education?
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Freire's name for teaching that just deposits facts into passive students — the opposite of liberating education.
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Why isn't education ever fully neutral?
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Any education teaches SOME view of the world, so it always carries power — the question is whose.
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Plato vs Freire in one line?
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Guard knowledge with a wise few (Plato) vs share it to free the many (Freire) — with Foucault showing why the choice is about power.
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