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One cannot conceive of objectivity without subjectivity.

Paulo Freire

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.
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Doubt Listening Teaching
People in communion liberate each other.
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Communion Liberate People
The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape the students. What the educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves.
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Mean Teacher Teaching
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
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
To study is not to consume ideas, but to create and re-create them.
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Consume Idea Study
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
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
Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of the students.
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Domination Exercise Student
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
Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people.
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People Profound World
The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.
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Community Favors Leader
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
Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage
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Act Courage Education Love
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
language is never neutral
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Country Language Neutral People

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