Why Living in Hope is Crucial as SA Begins a New Political Era

The great Brazilian intellectual Paolo Freire explained why he wrote a book called Pedagogy of Hope thus: “We are surrounded by a pragmatic discourse that would have us adapt to the facts of reality. Dream and utopia are called not only useless, but positively impeding…. It may seem strange then that I should write a book called Pedagogy of Hope: Pedagogy of the Oppressed Revisited.”