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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

Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of the students.
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Domination Exercise Student
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.
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Revolutionary Leader Self Thinking
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
Teacher preparation should go beyond the technical preparation of teachers and be rooted in the ethical formation both of selves and of history.
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Preparation Self Teacher
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
Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle.
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Identity Real Struggle
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
To study is not to consume ideas, but to create and re-create them.
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Consume Idea Study
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
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
Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage
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Act Courage Education Love
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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Mean Past Understanding
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
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
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 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

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