To study is not to consume ideas, but to create and re-create them.
PAULO FREIREThe 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.
More Paulo Freire Quotes
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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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One cannot conceive of objectivity without subjectivity.
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Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of the students.
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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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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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language is never neutral
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Individuals who were submerged in reality, merely feeling their needs, emerge from reality and perceive the causes of their needs.
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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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The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.
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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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Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage
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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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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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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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I am an educator who thinks globally.
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