Sometimes a simple, almost insignificant gesture on the part of a teacher can have a profound formative effect on the life of… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
One of my major preoccupations is the approximation between what I say and what I do, between what I seem to be… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The role of the educator is one of tranquil possession of certitude in regard to the teaching of not only contents but… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The parent-child relationship in the home usually reflects the objective cultural conditions of the surrounding social structure. If the conditions which penetrate… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
If I am a pure product of genetic, cultural, or class determination, I have no responsibility for my action in the world… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The atmosphere of the home is prolonged in the school, where the students soon discover thatin order to achieve some satisfaction they… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
At times, I have been criticized by some philosophers of education, who place me in postures that they classify pejoratively as 'revolutionary.'… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
No matter how much someone may irritate me, I have no right to puff myself up with my own self-importance so as… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
It is impossible to talk of respect for students for the dignity that is in the process of coming to be, for… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
This is the road I have tried to follow as a teacher: living my convictions; being open to the process of knowing… — 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
