The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.
PAULO FREIREEducation is an act of love, and thus an act of courage
More Paulo Freire Quotes
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One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success.
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I am an educator who thinks globally.
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The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.
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In order to have the continued opportunity to express their “generosity” the oppressors must perpetuate injustice as well.
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Teacher preparation should go beyond the technical preparation of teachers and be rooted in the ethical formation both of selves and of history.
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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.
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Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage
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I 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.
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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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Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle.
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The future isn’t something hidden in a corner.The future is something we build in the present.
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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.
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Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people.
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Just 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.
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To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.
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