To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.
PAULO FREIREOne cannot conceive of objectivity without subjectivity.
More Paulo Freire Quotes
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Individuals who were submerged in reality, merely feeling their needs, emerge from reality and perceive the causes of their needs.
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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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In order to have the continued opportunity to express their “generosity” the oppressors must perpetuate injustice as well.
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People in communion liberate each other.
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I am an educator who thinks globally.
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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.
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To affirm that men and women are persons and as persons should be free, and yet to do nothing tangible to make this affirmation a reality, is a farce.
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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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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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Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle.
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To study is not to consume ideas, but to create and re-create them.
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language is never neutral
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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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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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The 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.
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