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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

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 teach is part of the very fabric of learning.
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Fabric Teacher Torture
It would be extremely naive to expect the dominant classes to develop a type of education that would enable subordinate classes to perceive social injustices critically.
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Class Education Educational
How can I be an educator if I do not develop in myself a caring and loving attitude toward the student, which is indispensable on the part of one who is committed to teaching and to the education process itself.
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Attitude Caring Teaching
… 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
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
I am an educator who thinks globally.
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Educator Globally Thinking
One cannot conceive of objectivity without subjectivity.
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Conceive Objectivity Subjectivity
Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.
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Hopeful Inquiry Learn
One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success.
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Individual Manipulation Method
… 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
The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.
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Liberation Oppressed Pedagogy Strive
language is never neutral
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Country Language Neutral People
Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors, which in turn dehumanizes the oppressed
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Destiny Historical Order
Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage
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Act Courage Education Love
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

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