The future isn’t something hidden in a corner.The future is something we build in the present.
PAULO FREIREIndividuals who were submerged in reality, merely feeling their needs, emerge from reality and perceive the causes of their needs.
More Paulo Freire Quotes
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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.’
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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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To study is not to consume ideas, but to create and re-create them.
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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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Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage
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One cannot conceive of objectivity without subjectivity.
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… 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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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.
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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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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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I am an educator who thinks globally.
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The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.
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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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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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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
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