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To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.

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.
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Preparation Self Teacher
One cannot conceive of objectivity without subjectivity.
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Conceive Objectivity Subjectivity
To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.
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Fabric Teacher Torture
People in communion liberate each other.
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Communion Liberate People
I am an educator who thinks globally.
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Educator Globally Thinking
No matter how much someone may irritate me, I have no right to puff myself up with my own self-importance so as to declare that person to be absolutely incompetent, assuming a posture of disdain from my own position of false superiority.
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Educational Philosophy Self
Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage
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Act Courage Education Love
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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Doubt Listening Teaching
… 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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Emerge Teacher Teaching
To study is not to consume ideas, but to create and re-create them.
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Consume Idea Study
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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Destiny Historical Order
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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Ideas Latin Thinking
The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.
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Liberation Oppressed Pedagogy Strive
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.
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Mean Teacher Teaching
Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle.
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Identity Real Struggle
The oppressors develop a series of methods precluding any presentation of the world as a problem and showing it rather as a fixed entity, as something given–something to which people, as mere spectators, must adapt.
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People Problem World

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