A lot of you have talked about how we need to learn how to "apply" knowledge rather than just merely learn facts. But is the issue merely one of "application?" Application seems to imply knowledge as something we "use." Indeed, I tend to use the phrase "tool for thinking" when I discuss the ways your book frames the writing process.
However, is there a kind of knowledge that resists use? In a world where everything is in an instrumental relationship with everything else, in a world where our lives operate smoothly and without a hitch, is there room for disruption? Is there room for knowledge, attitudes, or skills that resist this dominant way of engaging with the world?
Is this not what Freire seeks? Knowledge that resists those that oppress others? "The problem-posing method presents this very situation ["the situation within which [we] are submerged"] to them as a problem." Indeed, it is our very situation, our very condition, our very "natural" attitudes and practices that become problematic--that become an invitation to change and resistance.
Food for thought.
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