Human beings are Subjects whose vocation is transforming the world

Evidence

Freire is able to do this because he operates on one basic assumption: that man’s ontological vocation (as he calls it) is to be a Subject who acts upon and transforms his world, and in so doing moves toward ever new possibilities of fuller and richer life individually and collectively. This world to which he relates is not a static and closed order, a given reality which man must accept and to which he must adjust; rather, it is a problem to be worked on and solved. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 66

Categorization

• DEFINE: The Subject/world-as-problem distinction underlies problem-posing education.
• XREF: connects to: Oppressed groups become Subjects by saying ‘we,’ which women have failed to do. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 56; Teaching as freedom requires a sense of vocation as sacred