I am an educator who thinks globally.
PAULO FREIRETo study is not to consume ideas, but to create and re-create them.
More Paulo Freire Quotes
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One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success.
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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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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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language is never neutral
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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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Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage
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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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Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of the students.
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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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To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.
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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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Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle.
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One cannot conceive of objectivity without subjectivity.
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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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… 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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