Week 1, Assignment 1b

Hello All,
Paulo Freire was a very successful man. He had many great accomplishments in his life, both personally and professionally. Here are three things that I though were important in Freire's life.

1. In 1946, he was appointed Director of Pernambuco Department of Education and Culture os SESI, which is a goverment agency, funded by a national confederation of factory owners for the betterment of the standard of living of their workers.

2. Was admitted into leagal law, but never practice it. Instead, he became a teacher and taught Portuguese in a secondary school where he later met his wife and mother to his five children.

3. His first book, Education as the Practice of Freedom, was published in, 1967.


Imformation was gathered from these sites:
http://www.paulofreireinstitute.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo_Freire