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.
PAULO FREIREIt 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.
More Paulo Freire Quotes
-
-
To study is not to consume ideas, but to create and re-create them.
PAULO FREIRE -
Teacher preparation should go beyond the technical preparation of teachers and be rooted in the ethical formation both of selves and of history.
PAULO FREIRE -
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.
PAULO FREIRE -
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.
PAULO FREIRE -
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 -
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.
PAULO FREIRE -
Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle.
PAULO FREIRE -
… 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 FREIRE -
One cannot conceive of objectivity without subjectivity.
PAULO FREIRE -
To simply think about the people, as the dominators do, without any self-giving in that thought, to fail to think with the people, is a sure way to cease being revolutionary leaders.
PAULO FREIRE -
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.
PAULO FREIRE -
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.
PAULO FREIRE -
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.
PAULO FREIRE -
Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.
PAULO FREIRE -
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.
PAULO FREIRE