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It doesnt hurt to repeat here the statement, still rejected by many people in spite of its obviousness, that education is a political act.
— Paulo Freire
P20 - The rightist sectarian wants to slow down the historical process, to domesticate time and thus to domesticate men and women.
— Paulo Freire
P60- one does not liberate people by alienating them.
P62- consciousness is the constant unveiling of reality. — Paulo Freire
P62- consciousness is the constant unveiling of reality. — Paulo Freire
To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie.
— Paulo Freire
Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future.
— Paulo Freire
There is, in fact, no teaching without learning.
— Paulo Freire
P57/8- one must seek to live with others in solidarity..only through communication can human life hold meaning.
— Paulo Freire
It would be a contradiction in terms if the oppressors not only defended but actually implemented a liberating education.
— Paulo Freire
How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation?
— Paulo Freire
For cultural invasion to succeed, it is essential that those invaded become convinced of their intrinsic inferiority.
— Paulo Freire
The behavior of the oppressed is a prescribed behavior, following as it does the guidelines of the oppressor.
— Paulo Freire
The future isn't something hidden in a corner.The future is something we build in the present.
— Paulo Freire
What if we discover that our present way of life is irreconcilable with our vocation to become fully human?
— Paulo Freire
The intellectual activity of those without power is always characterized as non-intellectual.
— Paulo Freire
The unfinished character of human beings and the transformational character of reality necessitate that education be an ongoing activity.
— Paulo Freire
The former oppressors do not feel liberated. On the contrary, they genuinely consider themselves to be oppressed.
— Paulo Freire
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
— Paulo Freire
The role of the educator is one of tranquil possession of certitude in regard to the teaching of not only contents but also of 'correct thinking.'
— Paulo Freire
Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching, and whoever learns teaches in the act of learning.
— Paulo Freire
The trust of the people in the leaders reflects the confidence of the leaders in the people.
— Paulo Freire
One cannot conceive of objectivity without subjectivity.
— Paulo Freire
Certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation.
— Paulo Freire
P68- there is no true word that is not at the same time a praxis. Thus, to speak a true word is to transform the world.
— Paulo Freire
Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people.
— Paulo Freire
The educator has the duty of not being neutral.
— Paulo Freire
Sometimes a simple, almost insignificant gesture on the part of a teacher can have a profound formative effect on the life of a student.
— Paulo Freire
The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom.
— Paulo Freire
This capacity to go beyond the factors of conditioning is one of the obvious advantages of the human person.
— Paulo Freire
People in communion liberate each other.
— Paulo Freire
Dialogue cannot exist without humility.
— Paulo Freire
The revolutionary's role is to liberate, and to be liberated, with the people
not to win them over. — Paulo Freire
not to win them over. — Paulo Freire
One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success.
— Paulo Freire
The multitude is always in the wrong.
— Paulo Freire
P17 - Critical consciousness, they say, is anarchic.
— Paulo Freire
Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in 'changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them';
— Paulo Freire
Learning is a process where knowledge is presented to us, then shaped through understanding, discussion and reflection.
— Paulo Freire
This, then, is the great humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves and their oppressors as well.
— Paulo Freire
The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.
— Paulo Freire
language is never neutral
— Paulo Freire
P46- As long as the oppressed remain unaware of the causes of their condition, they fatalistically "accept" their exploitation.
— Paulo Freire
One of my major preoccupations is the approximation between what I say and what I do, between what I seem to be and what I am actually becoming.
— Paulo Freire
The pursuit of full humanity, however, cannot be carried out in isolation or individualism, but only in fellowship and solidarity;
— Paulo Freire
From the first, the act of conquest, which reduces persons to the status of things, is necrophilia
— Paulo Freire
He was a teacher with good thinks of the life and education but he espress with a sentence.
— Paulo Freire
The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.
— Paulo Freire
Teacher preparation should go beyond the technical preparation of teachers and be rooted in the ethical formation both of selves and of history.
— Paulo Freire
Education is freedom.
— Paulo Freire
In order to have the continued opportunity to express their "generosity" the oppressors must perpetuate injustice as well.
— Paulo Freire
P26 - Only power that springs from the weakness of the oppressed will be sufficiently strong to free both.
— Paulo Freire
Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage
— Paulo Freire
Liberation is a praxis : the action and reflection of men and women upon their world in order to transform it.
— Paulo Freire
Submission to suffering is a form of annihilation, but transformation of suffering rekindles a faith that gives life.
— Paulo Freire
Love is an act of courage.
— Paulo Freire
P40- this violence, as a process, is perpetuated from generation to generation of oppressors, who become its heirs and are shaped by it.
— Paulo Freire
The hope of remaking the world is indispensable in the struggle of oppressed men and women.
— Paulo Freire
P42- the oppressed, as objects, as "things", have no purposes except those their oppressors prescribe for them.
— Paulo Freire
The world is split between those who do not sleep because they are hungry and those who do not sleep because they are afraid of those who are hungry.
— Paulo Freire
It's no sin to make a critical study of Brazil's reality. A small percentage own land. Most people don't.
— Paulo Freire
P57- the oppressors, whose tranquility rests on how well people fit the world the oppressors have created, and how little they question it.
— Paulo Freire
No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.
— Paulo Freire
I cannot be a teacher without exposing who I am.
— Paulo Freire
The road to revolution involves openness to the people, not imperviousness to them; it involves communion with the people, not mistrust.
— Paulo Freire
Education is suffering from narration sickness.
— Paulo Freire
It is not suprising that the banking concept of education regards men as adaptable, manageable beings.
— Paulo Freire
To affirm that men and women are persons and as persons should be free, and yet to do nothing tangible to make this affirmation a reality, is a farce.
— Paulo Freire
The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves ...
— Paulo Freire
Faith in people is an a priori requirement for dialogue.
— Paulo Freire
To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.
— Paulo Freire
I am an educator who thinks globally.
— Paulo Freire