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 FREIRELooking 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.
More Paulo Freire Quotes
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Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle.
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Individuals who were submerged in reality, merely feeling their needs, emerge from reality and perceive the causes of their needs.
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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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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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In order to have the continued opportunity to express their “generosity” the oppressors must perpetuate injustice as well.
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Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of the students.
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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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To study is not to consume ideas, but to create and re-create them.
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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.
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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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How can I be an educator if I do not develop in myself a caring and loving attitude toward the student, which is indispensable on the part of one who is committed to teaching and to the education process itself.
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One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success.
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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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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.
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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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