black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage

Paulo Freire

The 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

People Problem World
… 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
I am an educator who thinks globally.
PAULO FREIRE

Educator Globally Thinking
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
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
Dehumanization, 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 FREIRE

Destiny Historical Order
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
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
Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of the students.
PAULO FREIRE

Domination Exercise Student
To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.
PAULO FREIRE

Fabric Teacher Torture
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
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
Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people.
PAULO FREIRE

People Profound World
How 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 FREIRE

Attitude Caring Teaching
Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage
PAULO FREIRE

Act Courage Education Love
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

Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Paulo Freire Quotes