ABSTRACT
More than 50 years ago, in a small, poor town in northeastern Brazil, named Angicos, Paulo Freire and a team of young university students from the cities of Recife and João Pessoa developed their most famous experiment in popular education, which lay at the origin of the publication, later on, of Pedagogy of the Oppressed and which would become one of the works of reference in the world history of pedagogy in the 20th century. Acknowledging the universality of the human condition and the equal dignity of human beings implies that one must see education as an action project centered on social justice, the utopistics of contemporary education policies and processes. Within its borders each individual life is housed, while this world itself is meant to outlast and transcend them all.
