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Various aspects of the syllabus have been studied, among them issues of tone, its use of images, its length, whether
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“The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape the students. What the educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves. And in doing that, he or she lives the experience of relating democratically as authority with the freedom of students.”
—Paulo Freire, We Make the World by Walking

Various aspects of the syllabus have been studied, among them issues of tone, its use of images, its length, whether

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