black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

… 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

To study is not to consume ideas, but to create and re-create them.
PAULO FREIRE

Consume Idea Study
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

Educational Philosophy School
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

Farce Men Reality
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
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
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

Doubt Listening Teaching
One cannot conceive of objectivity without subjectivity.
PAULO FREIRE

Conceive Objectivity Subjectivity
The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.
PAULO FREIRE

Community Favors Leader
… 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
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

Ideas Latin Thinking
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
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
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

Force Justice Weakness
The future isn’t something hidden in a corner.The future is something we build in the present.
PAULO FREIRE

Corner Future Something
Individuals who were submerged in reality, merely feeling their needs, emerge from reality and perceive the causes of their needs.
PAULO FREIRE

Causes Feeling Reality

… 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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

… 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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Paulo Freire Quotes