1. GODWIN
&
FREIRE
Natalie Baez

2. WILLIAM GODWIN
• English journalist, political
philosopher & novelist
• Founder of philosophical
anarchism
• Enquiry Concerning Political
Justice. (Of Obedience)

3. GODWIN’S LAWS OF
OBEDIENCE
•Conviction 
•Confidence 
•Coercion 

4. CONVICTION
• Making decisions based on
your own “private judgment.”
• No approval of others needed
• Convincing self through
reasoning
--MAKES US HUMAN!--
“The purest kind of obedience is, where an action flows from
the independent conviction of our private judgment, where we
are directed, not by the precarious and mutable interference
of another, but by a recollection of the intrinsic and
indefeasible tendency of the action to be performed.”

5. CONFIDENCE
• Obeying another to get
something you want
• In your best self-interest
• Reciprocity
“...Is that which depends for its validity upon confidence of him with
whom it prevails, and is where, not having myself acquired such
information as to enable me to form a judicious opinion, I yield a greater
or less degree of deference to the known sentiment and decision of
another.”

6. COERCION
• Force used for compliancy
(good or bad)
• Reward or Punishment
• Obeying another‟s conviction
--TURNS US INTO ANIMALS!--
“Authority in the last of the three senses alluded to, is where a man, in
issuing his precept, does not deliver that which may be neglected with
impunity; but his requisition is attended with a sanction, and the violation
of it will be followed with a penalty.”

7. PAULO FREIRE
• Brazilian educator
• Critical pedagogy theorist
• Pedagogy of the Oppressed.
Chapter 2

8. FREIRE’S EDUCATION
CONCEPTS
•Problem-Posing 
•Banking Concept 

9. PROBLEM POSING
• Learning for life
• Engaged with real problems
• Teacher engages student, gets them involved &
challenges them think critically
Students are not
property!
“…She is always „cognitive‟, whether preparing a project or
engaging in dialogue with the students. He does not regard
objects as his private property, but as object of reflection by
himself and his students.”

10. BANKING CONCEPT
• “Dehumanizes” us
• Teacher deposits info into
student, student stores and
withdraws it when needed
Human ATM machines!
“…The educator‟s role is to regulate the way the world „enters
into’ the students. The teacher‟s task is to organize a process
which already occurs spontaneously, to „fill the students’ by
making deposits of information which he or she considers to
constitute true knowledge.”

11. CONNECTIONS
Godwin Freire
Conviction Problem-Posing
Confidence Banking concept
Coercion

12. WORKS CITED
• Godwin, William. “Of Obedience,” Enquiry Concerning Political Justice. Ed. K. Codell
Carter. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971.
• “Chapter 2 of Pedagogy of the Oppressed.” Trans. Myra Bergman Ramos. Bob
Corbett User Home Page. Webster University. 21 Mar. 2001. Web. 19 Aug. 2011.
• "William Godwin (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)." Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy. Web. 03 Nov. 2011. <http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/godwin/>.
• "Paulo Freire and Informal Education." Contents @ the Informal Education Homepage.
Web. 03 Nov. 2011. <http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-freir.htm>.
• Got pictures from Google