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To study is not to consume ideas, but to create and re-create them.

Paulo Freire

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
To study is not to consume ideas, but to create and re-create them.
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Consume Idea Study
The more we become able to become a child again, to keep ourselves childlike, the more we can understand that because we love the world and we are open to understanding, to comprehension, that when we kill the child in us, we are no longer.
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Children Understanding World
People in communion liberate each other.
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Communion Liberate People
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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Attitude Caring Teaching
Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people.
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People Profound World
One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success.
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Individual Manipulation Method
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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Hopeful Inquiry Learn
The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.
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Liberation Oppressed Pedagogy Strive
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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Educational Philosophy School
One cannot conceive of objectivity without subjectivity.
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Conceive Objectivity Subjectivity
The future isn’t something hidden in a corner.The future is something we build in the present.
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Corner Future Something
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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Reading Touching Writing
I am an educator who thinks globally.
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Educator Globally Thinking
language is never neutral
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Country Language Neutral People
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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Class Education Educational
… 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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Identity Taught Teacher Teaching
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
In order to have the continued opportunity to express their “generosity” the oppressors must perpetuate injustice as well.
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Generosity Opportunity Order
The role of the educator is one of tranquil possession of certitude in regard to the teaching of not only contents but also of ‘correct thinking.’
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Educational Philosophy Teaching
To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.
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Fabric Teacher Torture
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
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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Force Justice Weakness
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
The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.
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Community Favors Leader
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
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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Revolutionary Leader Self Thinking

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