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… 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

The atmosphere of the home is prolonged in the school, where the students soon discover thatin order to achieve some satisfaction they must adapt to the precepts which have ben set from above. One of these precepts is not to think.
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Educational Philosophy School
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
One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success.
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Individual Manipulation Method
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 future isn’t something hidden in a corner.The future is something we build in the present.
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Corner Future Something
It would be extremely naive to expect the dominant classes to develop a type of education that would enable subordinate classes to perceive social injustices critically.
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Class Education Educational
To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.
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Fabric Teacher Torture
The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.
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Liberation Oppressed Pedagogy Strive
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.’
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Educational Philosophy Teaching
To study is not to consume ideas, but to create and re-create them.
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Consume Idea Study
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
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
One cannot conceive of objectivity without subjectivity.
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Conceive Objectivity Subjectivity
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
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

… 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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… 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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