One cannot conceive of objectivity without subjectivity.
PAULO FREIREOne cannot conceive of objectivity without subjectivity.
PAULO FREIRETo teach is part of the very fabric of learning.
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 FREIRETo study is not to consume ideas, but to create and re-create them.
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 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 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 FREIREEducation as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of the students.
PAULO FREIREImplicit 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 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 FREIREEducation is an act of love, and thus an act of courage
PAULO FREIRElanguage is never neutral
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 FREIREThe 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 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 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 FREIRE