Education Quotes by Paulo Freire

Education is freedom.

— Paulo Freire

There is, in fact, no teaching without learning.

— Paulo Freire

Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information

— Paulo Freire

The educator has the duty of not being neutral.

— Paulo Freire

Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage

— Paulo Freire

A revolutionary leadership must accordingly practice co-intentional education.

— Paulo Freire

Education is suffering from narration sickness.

— Paulo Freire

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

— Paulo Freire

To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.

— Paulo Freire

“Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferals of information.”

— Paulo Freire

Sometimes a simple, almost insignificant gesture on the part of a teacher can have a profound formative effect on the life of…

— Paulo Freire

Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching, and whoever learns teaches in the act of learning.

— Paulo Freire

Problem-posing education affirms men and women as beings in the process of becoming.

— Paulo Freire

Through dialogue, the teacher-of-the-students and the students-of-the-teacher cease to exist and a new term emerges: teacher-student with students-teachers.

— Paulo Freire

“He was a teacher with good thinks of the life and education but he espress with a sentence.”

— Paulo Freire

It's no sin to make a critical study of Brazil's reality. A small percentage own land. Most people don't.

— Paulo Freire

It would be a contradiction in terms if the oppressors not only defended but actually implemented a liberating education.

— Paulo Freire

The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile,…

— Paulo Freire

When we live our lives with the authenticity demanded by the practice of teaching that is also learning and learning that is…

— Paulo Freire

It is in our incompleteness, of which we are aware, that education as a permanent process is grounded. Women and men are…

— Paulo Freire

It is not systematic education which somehow molds society, but, on the contrary, society which, according to its particular structure, shapes education…

— Paulo Freire

Educators need to know what happens in the world of the children with whom they work. They need to know the universe…

— Paulo Freire

It is not possible to remake this country, to democratize it, humanize it, make it serious, as long as we have teenagers…

— Paulo Freire

This is the sense in which I am obliged to be a listener. To listen to the student's doubts, fears, and incompetencies…

— Paulo Freire

In problem-posing education, people develop their power to perceive critically the way they exist in the world with which and in which…

— Paulo Freire

Teachers and students (leadership and people), co-intent on reality, are both Subjects, not only in the task of unveiling that reality, and…

— Paulo Freire

... teaching cannot be a process of transference of knowledge from the one teaching to the learner. This is the mechanical transference…

— Paulo Freire

Education as the practice of freedom--as opposed to education as the practice of domination--denies that man is abstract, isolated, independent and unattached…

— Paulo Freire

It is impossible to talk of respect for students for the dignity that is in the process of coming to be, for…

— Paulo Freire

“If anyone, on the other hand, assuming a democratic, progressive position, therefore argues for the democratization of the programmatic organization of content,…

— Paulo Freire

This is the road I have tried to follow as a teacher: living my convictions; being open to the process of knowing…

— Paulo Freire

The more students work at storing the deposits entrusted to them, the less they develop the critical consciousness which would result from…

— Paulo Freire

... there are moments in which the teacher, as the authority talks to the learners, says what must be done, establishes limits…

— Paulo Freire

Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of the students.

— Paulo Freire

The role of the educator is one of tranquil possession of certitude in regard to the teaching of not only contents but…

— Paulo Freire

The unfinished character of human beings and the transformational character of reality necessitate that education be an ongoing activity.

— Paulo Freire

Education is freedom. Education will teach you how to do it yourself as opposed to asking someone else to do it for…

— Paulo Freire

Teacher preparation should go beyond the technical preparation of teachers and be rooted in the ethical formation both of selves and of…

— Paulo Freire

It doesnt hurt to repeat here the statement, still rejected by many people in spite of its obviousness, that education is a…

— Paulo Freire

It is not suprising that the banking concept of education regards men as adaptable, manageable beings.

— Paulo Freire