Fear and Liberation - English blog #2

Can one not go through life ignorant to actual reality, and subconsciously in fear of exploring the world around them, actively engaging their minds to absorb and contain which frees oneself from being stuck in the habit of just accepting something they’ll mostly forget when the subject is no longer in questioning. Sadly, many people do and they’re so set in those ways they probably don’t realize or know how to escape from it. Both Krishnamurti and Paulo Freire talk about how when we are being “educated” we are not truly learning and becoming more intelligent. In actuality we are being told what we need to know and how we are supposed to fit into society, without in fact being tested on what we have learned and without having to use it in our real life. We are more like those tipping bucket fountains, being filled up with a certain amount, and then dumping it once we’ve “fulfilled” what’s needed. Of course the same water comes back around in the fountain, just like how information will once again be presented to us, but we’ll only have some, if any, stored in our minds.
Fear/ignorance, living life/liberation are two main topics that Krishnamurti and Freire touch upon. Krishnamurti insists that fear prevents us from experiencing life which holds one back from learning and being educated. The fear seems to be in teachers deviating from the monotonous ways of teaching to something that relates to our lives. It is also fear from the students to go out and explore everything that surrounds them, ask more questions about how things relate, and of letting things that interest them take over their lives to fill them with passion and substance.
Freire calls it ignorance saying, “The students, alienated like the slave in the Hegelian dialectic, accept their ignorance as justifying the teacher’s existence—but, unlike the slave, they never discover that they educate the teacher”. According to him, it needs to be acknowledged that the students teach the teacher just as much, if not more, as the teacher teaches the students. In talking about the educator Freire says, “his efforts must coincide with those of the students to engage in critical thinking and the quest for mutual humanization”, which then creates a learning environment for both the educator and student, freeing them of ignorance.
Both Krishnamurti and Freire clearly state that people must be freed/liberated from this ineffective educational system.

Knowledge emerges only through invention and reinvention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry men pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other. – Freire
Attention come when you are deeply interested in something, for then you love to find out all about it; then your whole mind, your whole being it there. – Krishnamurti

Both are showing that when one is interested in something, they do whatever they can to learn more about that particular subject, and everything that could possibly relate to that subject. If you like something, you concentrate on it wholly, and formulate new ideas about it. You try to better it, and the things around it.

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