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Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people–they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.

Paulo Freire

The oppressors develop a series of methods precluding any presentation of the world as a problem and showing it rather as a fixed entity, as something given–something to which people, as mere spectators, must adapt.
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People Problem World
The future isn’t something hidden in a corner.The future is something we build in the present.
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Corner Future Something
It is necessary that the weakness of the powerless is transformed into a force capable of announcing justice. For this to happen, a total denouncement of fatalism is necessary. We are transformative beings and not beings for accommodation.
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Force Justice Weakness
Reading the word and learning how to write the word so one can later read it are preceded by learning how to write the world, that is having the experience of changing the world and touching the world.
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Reading Touching Writing
To simply think about the people, as the dominators do, without any self-giving in that thought, to fail to think with the people, is a sure way to cease being revolutionary leaders.
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Revolutionary Leader Self Thinking
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.
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Mean Past Understanding
To study is not to consume ideas, but to create and re-create them.
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Consume Idea Study
… there is no valid teaching from which there does not emerge something learned and through which the learner does not become capable of recreating and remaking what has been taught.
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Identity Taught Teacher Teaching
Teacher preparation should go beyond the technical preparation of teachers and be rooted in the ethical formation both of selves and of history.
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Preparation Self Teacher
Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people.
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People Profound World
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.
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Farce Men Reality
Just as it is important in Latin America to discuss ideas that come from North America, I think it is interesting for North Americans to discuss ideas that come from Latin America or Africa and do not insert themselves into capitalist interests.
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Ideas Latin Thinking
The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.
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Community Favors Leader
I am an educator who thinks globally.
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Educator Globally Thinking
… there is no valid teaching from which there does not emerge something learned and through which the learner does not become capable of recreating and remaking what has been taught.
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Emerge Teacher Teaching
Implicit in the banking concept is the assumption of a dichotomy between human beings and the world: a person is merely in the world, not with the world or with others; the individual is spectator, not re-creator.
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Assumption Banking World

Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people–they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.

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