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A careful analysis of the teacher-student
relationship at any level, inside or outside the
school, reveals its fundamentally narrative
character. This relationship involves a narrating
Subject (the teacher) and patient, listening objects
(the students). The contents, whether values or
empirical dimensions of reality, tend in the process
of being narrated to become lifeless and petrified.
Education is suffering from narration sickness.
The teacher talks about reality as if it were
motionless, static, compartmentalized, and
predictable. Or else he expounds on a topic
completely alien to the existential experience of the
students. His task is to “fill” the students with the
contents of his narration—contents which are
detached from reality, disconnected from the
totality that engendered them and could give them
significance. Words are emptied of their
concreteness and become a hollow, alienated, and
alienating verbosity.
The outstanding characteristic of this narrative
education, then, is the sonority of words, not their
transforming power. “Four times four is sixteen;
the capital of Pará is Belém.” The student records,
memorizes, and repeats these phrases without
perceiving what four times four really means, or
realizing the true significance of “capital” in the
affirmation “the capital of Para is Belém,” that is,
what Belém means for Pará and what Pará means
for Brazil.
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