Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of the students.
PAULO FREIREEducation as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of the students.
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This is the sense in which I am obliged to be a listener. To listen to the student’s doubts, fears, and incompetencies that are part of the learning process. It is in listening to the student that I learn to speak with him or her.
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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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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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To study is not to consume ideas, but to create and re-create them.
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People in communion liberate each other.
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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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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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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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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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The future isn’t something hidden in a corner.The future is something we build in the present.
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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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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 oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.
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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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Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people.
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