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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

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

Community Favors Leader
The 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 FREIRE

Mean Teacher Teaching
Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage
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Act Courage Education Love
I am an educator who thinks globally.
PAULO FREIRE

Educator Globally Thinking
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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Force Justice Weakness
One cannot conceive of objectivity without subjectivity.
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Conceive Objectivity Subjectivity
The 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 FREIRE

Children Understanding World
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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Decision Leader People
In order to have the continued opportunity to express their “generosity” the oppressors must perpetuate injustice as well.
PAULO FREIRE

Generosity Opportunity Order
To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.
PAULO FREIRE

Fabric Teacher Torture
People in communion liberate each other.
PAULO FREIRE

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

Consume Idea Study
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.’
PAULO FREIRE

Educational Philosophy Teaching
The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.
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Liberation Oppressed Pedagogy Strive
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
language is never neutral
PAULO FREIRE

Country Language Neutral People

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.

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