… 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 FREIREOne of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success.
More Paulo Freire Quotes
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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.
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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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People in communion liberate each other.
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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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Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people.
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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.
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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 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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The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.
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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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Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage
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language is never neutral
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Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of the students.
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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.
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