… 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… 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 FREIREIt 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 FREIRETeacher preparation should go beyond the technical preparation of teachers and be rooted in the ethical formation both of selves and of history.
PAULO FREIREThe more we become able to become a child again, to keep ourselves childlike, the more we can understand that because we love the world and we are open to understanding, to comprehension, that when we kill the child in us, we are no longer.
PAULO FREIRENo 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 FREIREThe oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.
PAULO FREIREThe oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.
PAULO FREIREThe 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 FREIREEducation is an act of love, and thus an act of courage
PAULO FREIREEducation as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of the students.
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.
PAULO FREIREPeople in communion liberate each other.
PAULO FREIREReading the word and learning how to write the word so one can later read it are preceded by learning how to write the world, that is having the experience of changing the world and touching the world.
PAULO FREIREThe 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.’
PAULO FREIREThe 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 FREIREIt 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