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Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

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Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

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About Paulo Freire

Paulo Reglus Neves Freire (19 September 1921 – 2 May 1997) was a Brazilian educator and philosopher who was a leading advocate of critical pedagogy. His influential work Pedagogy of the Oppressed is generally considered one of the foundational texts of the critical pedagogy movement, and was the third most cited book in the social sciences as of 2016 according to Google Scholar.