One cannot conceive of objectivity without subjectivity.
PAULO FREIREHow 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.
More Paulo Freire Quotes
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Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage
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Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of the students.
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The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.
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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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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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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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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.
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Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people.
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I am dealing with people and not with things. And, because I am dealing with people, I cannot refuse my wholehearted and loving attention, even in personal matters, where I see that a student is in need of such attention.
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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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People in communion liberate each other.
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The future isn’t something hidden in a corner.The future is something we build in the present.
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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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The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.
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To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.
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