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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

No oppressive order could permit the oppressed to being to question: Why? — Paulo Freire

P60- one does not liberate people by alienating them.
P62- consciousness is the constant unveiling of reality. — Paulo Freire

P14 - People educate each other through the mediation of the world — 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

As long as I fight, I am moved by hope; and if I fight with hope, then I can wait. — 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

P69- word is not the privilege of some few persons but the right of everyone — Paulo Freire

To study is not to consume ideas, but to create and re-create them. — Paulo Freire

What if we discover that our present way of life is irreconcilable with our vocation to become fully human? — Paulo Freire

Experience teaches us not to assume that the obvious is clearly understood — 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

Without a minimum of hope, we cannot so much as start the struggle. — 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

Reading is not walking on the words; it's grasping the soul of them. — Paulo Freire

Certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation. — Paulo Freire

Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information. — 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

One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success. — Paulo Freire

If the structure does not permit dialogue the structure must be changed — Paulo Freire

The multitude is always in the wrong. — Paulo Freire

Every society needs to examine itself in relation to other societies. — Paulo Freire

P40- for the oppressors..to 'be' is to have and to be the class of the "haves". — 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

Problem-posing education affirms men and women as beings in the process of becoming. — Paulo Freire

It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors. — 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

No one can be authentically human while he prevents others from being so. — Paulo Freire

Submission to suffering is a form of annihilation, but transformation of suffering rekindles a faith that gives life. — Paulo Freire

Revolution is born as a social entity within the oppressor society. — Paulo Freire

Love is an act of courage. — Paulo Freire

... Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle ... — 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

The oppressed find in the oppressors their model of 'manhood.' — Paulo Freire

It is not suprising that the banking concept of education regards men as adaptable, manageable beings. — Paulo Freire

Reflection and action must never be undertaken independently. — 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

Individuals who were submerged in reality, merely feeling their needs, emerge from reality and perceive the causes of their needs. — Paulo Freire