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  • Paulo Freire Quote - 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 Quote - 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 Quote - 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 Quote - 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 Quote - 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 Quote - 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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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

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Paulo Freire Quote - To simply think about the people, as the dominators do, without any self-giving in that thought, to fail to think with the people, is a sure way to cease being revolutionary leaders.

    To simply think about the people, as the dominators do, without any self-giving in that thought, to fail to think with the people, is a sure way to cease being revolutionary leaders.

    PAULO FREIRE
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Paulo Freire Quote - language is never neutral

    language is never neutral

    PAULO FREIRE
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Paulo Freire Quote - The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.

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

    PAULO FREIRE
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Paulo Freire Quote - 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.

    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.

    PAULO FREIRE
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Paulo Freire Quote - 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.

    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.

    PAULO FREIRE
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Paulo Freire Quote - I am an educator who thinks globally.

    I am an educator who thinks globally.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Paulo Freire Quote - 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.

    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.

    PAULO FREIRE
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Paulo Freire Quote - 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.

    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
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Paulo Freire Quote - 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.

    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.

    PAULO FREIRE
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Paulo Freire Quote - 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.

    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
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Paulo Freire Quote - 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.

    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
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Paulo Freire Quote - Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of the students. Download This Image

    Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of the students.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Paulo Freire Quote - Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage

    Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Paulo Freire Quote - 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.

    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
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Paulo Freire Quote - 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.

    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.

    PAULO FREIRE
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Paulo Freire Quote - 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.

    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