Paulo Freire Quotes
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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
To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie.
— 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 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
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
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 peoplenot 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
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
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
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
It's no sin to make a critical study of Brazil's reality. A small percentage own land. Most people don't.
— 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
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
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
