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Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people.

Paulo Freire

One cannot conceive of objectivity without subjectivity.
PAULO FREIRE

Conceive Objectivity Subjectivity
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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Need People Teaching
To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.
PAULO FREIRE

Fabric Teacher Torture
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.
PAULO FREIRE

Assumption Banking World
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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Children Understanding World
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
Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle.
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Identity Real Struggle
People in communion liberate each other.
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Communion Liberate People
Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage
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Act Courage Education Love
The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.
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Liberation Oppressed Pedagogy Strive
Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of the students.
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Domination Exercise Student
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
… 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

Identity Taught Teacher Teaching
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

Doubt Listening Teaching
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.
PAULO FREIRE

Farce Men Reality
Individuals who were submerged in reality, merely feeling their needs, emerge from reality and perceive the causes of their needs.
PAULO FREIRE

Causes Feeling Reality

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