ABSTRACT
Paulo Freire has long been regarded as a pedagogue of hope. The link between hope and education has been explored by a number of thinkers over the centuries. Hope for Freire has ontological, epistemological, ethical, and educational dimensions. Dehumanization can be evident in the workplace, the home, the school, and many other domains of human interaction. Dehumanizing policies, practices, attitudes, and ideas, and the forms of discrimination that go along with them, often have their origins in prejudice and ignorance in relations with those who differ from us along the lines of class, gender, or ethnicity. The posthumously published work A Pedagogy of Indignation includes a letter from Balduino Andreola to Freire. In his letter, Andreola aligns Freire with other intellectuals, activists, and spiritual leaders who advanced "pedagogy of great convergences". In the last decade of his life, Freire was a prolific writer. This productivity had its weaknesses as well as strengths.
