- Judy
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>Actually, I saw something different at play at Freire's lecture. He
>looked to be, in part, a victim of what Walker Percy called the
>Jonas Salk Complex. (Percy once suggested to Salk that, if he
>(Salk) wished to get any work done, he should change his name
>because otherwise, he could never get past being *Jonas Salk*).
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>Here's Freire, talking to an audience, who ostensibly knows him
>and his work (or at least him through his work) well enough to know
>that it is okay and expected to interrupt his talk, or at least
>ask questions during the provided pauses, but who seem to be awed
>or cowed by his presence - so he goes on and on.
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>On the one hand, he is Paolo Freire, known proponent of people
>taking their language and their history into their own hands, and
>making their lives thereby, and on the other hand, he is *Paolo
>Freire* famous person, ivory-tower thinker, unapproachable
>celebrity.
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>What a delicious irony.
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Judy Diamondstone
diamonju who-is-at rci.rutgers.edu
Rutgers University
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