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 FREIREThis 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 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 FREIREJust 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 FREIREHow 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.
PAULO FREIREI 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 FREIREThe future isn’t something hidden in a corner.The future is something we build in the present.
PAULO FREIREIn order to have the continued opportunity to express their “generosity” the oppressors must perpetuate injustice as well.
PAULO FREIRETo 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 FREIREPeople in communion liberate each other.
PAULO FREIREOne of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success.
PAULO FREIREIndividuals who were submerged in reality, merely feeling their needs, emerge from reality and perceive the causes of their needs.
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 FREIREDehumanization, 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
PAULO FREIREThe oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.
PAULO FREIREEducation is an act of love, and thus an act of courage
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.
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