Problem-posing education affirms men and women as beings in the process of becoming. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Liberation is a praxis: the action and reflection of men and women upon their world in order to transform it. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of the students. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
It is not suprising that the banking concept of education regards men as adaptable, manageable beings. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation? — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in 'changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them'; — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Implicit in the banking concept is the assumption of a dichotomy between human beings and the world: a person is merely in… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The unfinished character of human beings and the transformational character of reality necessitate that education be an ongoing activity. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Those truly committed to liberation must reject the banking concept in its entirety, adopting instead a concept of women and men as… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“No pedagogy which is truly liberating can remain distant from the oppressed by treating them as unfortunates and by presenting for their… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
This pedagogy makes oppression and its causes objects of reflection by the oppressed, and from that reflection will come their necessary engagement… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Indeed, some "revolutionaries" brand as "innocents," "dreamers," or even "reactionaries"; those who would challenge this educational practice. But one does not liberate… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
This book will present some aspects of what the writer has termed the pedagogy of the oppressed, a pedagogy which must be… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Authentic thinking, thinking that is concerned about reality, does not take place in ivory tower isolation, but only in communication. If it… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
No pedagogy which is truly liberating can remain distant from the oppressed by treating them as unfortunates and by presenting for their… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
But almost always, during the initial stage of the struggle, the oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors,… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation? Only as they discover themselves to… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape… — Paulo Freire Copy Share
“if i am not in the world simply to adapt to it, but rather transform it, and if it is not possible to change… — Paulo Freire Copy Share
The earliest language was body language and, since this language is the language of questions, if we limit the questions, and if we only… — Paulo Freire Copy Share
The behavior and reactions of the oppressed, which lead the oppressor to practice cultural invasion, should evoke from the revolutionary a different theory of… — Paulo Freire Copy Share
“The fact that certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation, thus moving from one pole of the… — Paulo Freire Copy Share
“When a word is deprived of its dimension of action,reflection automatically suffers as well and the word is changed into idle chatter, into verbalism,into… — Paulo Freire Copy Share
A reader does not suddenly comprehend what is being read or studied, in a snap, miraculously. Comprehension needs to be worked forged, by those… — Paulo Freire Copy Share
“If I do not love the world, if I do not love life, if I do not love people, I cannot enter into dialogue.” — Paulo Freire Copy Share
[Humans'] capacity to intervene, to compare, to judge, to decide, to choose, to desist makes them capable of acts of greatness, of dignity, and,… — Paulo Freire Copy Share
If I am a pure product of genetic, cultural, or class determination, I have no responsibility for my action in the world and, therefore,… — Paulo Freire Copy Share
“To begin always anew, to make, to reconstruct, and to not spoil, to refuse to bureaucratize the mind, to understand and to live life… — Paulo Freire Copy Share
“The man or woman who proclaims devotion to the cause of liberation yet is unable to enter into communion with the people, whom he… — Paulo Freire Copy Share
One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by… — Paulo Freire Copy Share
Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence;… to alienate humans from their… — Paulo Freire Copy Share
Educators need to know what happens in the world of the children with whom they work. They need to know the universe of their… — Paulo Freire Copy Share
