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I am an educator who thinks globally.

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
Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle.
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Identity Real Struggle
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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Need People Teaching
Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage
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Act Courage Education Love
To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.
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Fabric Teacher Torture
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
The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.
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Liberation Oppressed Pedagogy Strive
… 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
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 as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of the students.
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Domination Exercise Student
In order to have the continued opportunity to express their “generosity” the oppressors must perpetuate injustice as well.
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Generosity Opportunity Order
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
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
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

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