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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.

Paulo Freire

Individuals who were submerged in reality, merely feeling their needs, emerge from reality and perceive the causes of their needs.
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Causes Feeling Reality
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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Ideas Latin Thinking
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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Assumption Banking World
People in communion liberate each other.
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Communion Liberate People
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
One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success.
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Individual Manipulation Method
Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of the students.
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Domination Exercise Student
To study is not to consume ideas, but to create and re-create them.
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Consume Idea Study
Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future.
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Mean Past Understanding
… 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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Emerge Teacher Teaching
It would be extremely naive to expect the dominant classes to develop a type of education that would enable subordinate classes to perceive social injustices critically.
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Class Education Educational
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
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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Educational Philosophy Teaching
Reading the word and learning how to write the word so one can later read it are preceded by learning how to write the world, that is having the experience of changing the world and touching the world.
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Reading Touching Writing
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.
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People Problem World
The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.
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Community Favors Leader

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