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  • Paulo Freire Quote - 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 Quote - 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 Quote - 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 Quote - 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 Quote - 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 Quote - 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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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

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Paulo Freire Quote - … 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.

    … 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.

    PAULO FREIRE
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Paulo Freire Quote - The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.

    The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.

    PAULO FREIRE
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Paulo Freire Quote - The atmosphere of the home is prolonged in the school, where the students soon discover thatin order to achieve some satisfaction they must adapt to the precepts which have ben set from above. One of these precepts is not to think.

    The atmosphere of the home is prolonged in the school, where the students soon discover thatin order to achieve some satisfaction they must adapt to the precepts which have ben set from above. One of these precepts is not to think.

    PAULO FREIRE
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Paulo Freire Quote - To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.

    To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.

    PAULO FREIRE
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Paulo Freire Quote - 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

    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

    PAULO FREIRE
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Paulo Freire Quote - 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.’

    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
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Paulo Freire Quote - 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.

    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.

    PAULO FREIRE
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Paulo Freire Quote - This is the sense in which I am obliged to be a listener. To listen to the student’s doubts, fears, and incompetencies that are part of the learning process. It is in listening to the student that I learn to speak with him or her.

    This is the sense in which I am obliged to be a listener. To listen to the student’s doubts, fears, and incompetencies that are part of the learning process. It is in listening to the student that I learn to speak with him or her.

    PAULO FREIRE
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Paulo Freire Quote - 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.

    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
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Paulo Freire Quote - The more we become able to become a child again, to keep ourselves childlike, the more we can understand that because we love the world and we are open to understanding, to comprehension, that when we kill the child in us, we are no longer.

    The more we become able to become a child again, to keep ourselves childlike, the more we can understand that because we love the world and we are open to understanding, to comprehension, that when we kill the child in us, we are no longer.

    PAULO FREIRE
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Paulo Freire Quote - 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.

    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.

    PAULO FREIRE
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Paulo Freire Quote - The future isn’t something hidden in a corner.The future is something we build in the present.

    The future isn’t something hidden in a corner.The future is something we build in the present.

    PAULO FREIRE
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Paulo Freire Quote - 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.

    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.

    PAULO FREIRE
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Paulo Freire Quote - I am an educator who thinks globally.

    I am an educator who thinks globally.

    PAULO FREIRE
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Paulo Freire Quote - 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.

    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
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Paulo Freire Quote - 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.

    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.

    PAULO FREIRE