Problem-posing education does not and cannot serve the interests of the oppressor. No oppressive order could permit the oppressed to begin to question: Why?
Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in “changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them”; for the more the oppressed can be led to adapt to that situation, the more easily they can be dominated.
Implicit in the banking concept [of education] is the assumption of a dichotomy between human beings and the world: a person is merely in the world, not with the world or with others…In this view, the person is not a conscious being (corpo consciente); he or she is rather the possessor of a consciousness: an empty “mind” passively open to the reception of deposits of reality from the world outside.
https://envs.ucsc.edu/internships/internship-readings/freire-pedagogy-of-the-oppressed.pdf
I think on that note I agree with you, people that don’t want kids and want to be in child-free spaces are certainly not incompatible with socialism, and there are plenty of people that enjoy interacting with children and teaching being a role model etc. They also deserve support and the best tools possible to carry out those tasks, because being realistic here, people aren’t ever just gonna stop fucking so we might as well work with the hand we are dealt.
I agree, to me it feels in the same vein as [insert minority] free spaces that rights are so eager to probably advocate for, though I know that probably weren’t their intentions.
