… 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 FREIREHow 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.
More Paulo Freire Quotes
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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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… 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 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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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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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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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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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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Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle.
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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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One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success.
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To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.
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People in communion liberate each other.
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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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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 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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