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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.

Paulo Freire

Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people–they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.
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Decision Leader People
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
The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.
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Liberation Oppressed Pedagogy Strive
To study is not to consume ideas, but to create and re-create them.
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Consume Idea Study
language is never neutral
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Country Language Neutral People
… 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
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
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
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
To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.
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Fabric Teacher Torture
The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.
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Community Favors Leader
Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage
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Act Courage Education Love
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
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
One cannot conceive of objectivity without subjectivity.
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Conceive Objectivity Subjectivity

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