Individuals who were submerged in reality, merely feeling their needs, emerge from reality and perceive the causes of their needs.
PAULO FREIREThe oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.
More Paulo Freire Quotes
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To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.
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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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To study is not to consume ideas, but to create and re-create them.
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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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One cannot conceive of objectivity without subjectivity.
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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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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 oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.
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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.
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Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle.
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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 oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.
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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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language is never neutral
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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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