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

Paulo Freire

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

Liberation Oppressed Pedagogy Strive
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.
PAULO FREIRE

Need People Teaching
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
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

Doubt Listening Teaching
Individuals who were submerged in reality, merely feeling their needs, emerge from reality and perceive the causes of their needs.
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Causes Feeling Reality
Teacher preparation should go beyond the technical preparation of teachers and be rooted in the ethical formation both of selves and of history.
PAULO FREIRE

Preparation Self Teacher
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

Force Justice Weakness
Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people.
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People Profound World
One cannot conceive of objectivity without subjectivity.
PAULO FREIRE

Conceive Objectivity Subjectivity
The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.
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Community Favors Leader
language is never neutral
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Country Language Neutral People
Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage
PAULO FREIRE

Act Courage Education Love
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

Force Justice Weakness
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.
PAULO FREIRE

Hopeful Inquiry Learn
I am an educator who thinks globally.
PAULO FREIRE

Educator Globally Thinking
To study is not to consume ideas, but to create and re-create them.
PAULO FREIRE

Consume Idea Study

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