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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

No matter how much someone may irritate me, I have no right to puff myself up with my own self-importance so as to declare that person to be absolutely incompetent, assuming a posture of disdain from my own position of false superiority.
PAULO FREIRE

Educational Philosophy Self
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
language is never neutral
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Country Language Neutral People
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
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
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
Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage
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Act Courage Education Love
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 study is not to consume ideas, but to create and re-create them.
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Consume Idea Study
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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Preparation Self Teacher
The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.
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Community Favors Leader
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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Farce Men Reality
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
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
One cannot conceive of objectivity without subjectivity.
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Conceive Objectivity Subjectivity
I am dealing with people and not with things. And, because I am dealing with people, I cannot refuse my wholehearted and loving attention, even in personal matters, where I see that a student is in need of such attention.
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