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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

… 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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Emerge 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
I am an educator who thinks globally.
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Educator Globally Thinking
To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.
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Fabric Teacher Torture
One cannot conceive of objectivity without subjectivity.
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Conceive Objectivity Subjectivity
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 study is not to consume ideas, but to create and re-create them.
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Consume Idea Study
The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.
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Community Favors Leader
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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Assumption Banking World
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
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
Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle.
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Identity Real Struggle
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
Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage
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Act Courage Education Love
Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people.
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People Profound World
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.
PAULO FREIRE

People Problem World

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