black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.
PAULO FREIRE

Fabric Teacher Torture
One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success.
PAULO FREIRE

Individual Manipulation Method
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 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

Educational Philosophy Teaching
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

Decision Leader People
Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of the students.
PAULO FREIRE

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.
PAULO FREIRE

Mean Past Understanding
One cannot conceive of objectivity without subjectivity.
PAULO FREIRE

Conceive Objectivity Subjectivity
Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle.
PAULO FREIRE

Identity Real Struggle
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
Implicit in the banking concept is the assumption of a dichotomy between human beings and the world: a person is merely in the world, not with the world or with others; the individual is spectator, not re-creator.
PAULO FREIRE

Assumption Banking World
The future isn’t something hidden in a corner.The future is something we build in the present.
PAULO FREIRE

Corner Future Something
In order to have the continued opportunity to express their “generosity” the oppressors must perpetuate injustice as well.
PAULO FREIRE

Generosity Opportunity Order
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
… 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

Identity Taught Teacher Teaching
No matter how much someone may irritate me, I have no right to puff myself up with my own self-importance so as to declare that person to be absolutely incompetent, assuming a posture of disdain from my own position of false superiority.
PAULO FREIRE

Educational Philosophy Self

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Paulo Freire Quotes