Paulo Freire
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Paulo Reglus Neves Freire was a Brazilian educator and Marxist philosopher whose work has affected global thought on education. He is best known for Pedagogy of the Oppressed, in which he reimagines t
Freire in 1977
Freire in 1963
Maria Montessori
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Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori was an Italian physician and educator best known for her philosophy of education and her writing on scientific pedagogy. At an early age, Montessori enrolled in classe
Paulo Freire
…learning. He is widely regarded as one of the most important educational theorists of the twentieth century, alongside figures such as John Dewey and Maria Montessori. Freire was born on 19 September 1921 to a middle-class family in Recife, the State Capital of Pernambuco in the Brazilian Northeast. He became familiar…
Portrait of Montessori, artist and date unknown
Montessori, c. 1880
Montessori in 1913
Italian lira banknote, 1990 issue