Action Quotes by Paulo Freire

14 Action quotes by Paulo Freire

Paulo Freire’s educational philosophy comes alive in fourteen quotes, highlighting how critical action can empower learners and reshape societies.

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Reflection and action must never be undertaken independently.

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Liberation is a praxis: the action and reflection of men and women upon their world in order to transform it.

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Within the word we find two dimensions-reflection and action. If one is sacrificed even in part, the other immediately suffers. To speak…

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One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world…

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A reader does not suddenly comprehend what is being read or studied, in a snap, miraculously. Comprehension needs to be worked forged,…

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Critical and liberating dialogue, which presupposes action, must be carried on with the oppressed at whatever the stage of their struggle for…

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If I am a pure product of genetic, cultural, or class determination, I have no responsibility for my action in the world…

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Human existence cannot be silent, nor can it be nourished by false words, but only by true words, with which people transform…

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

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Authentic thinking, thinking that is concerned about reality, does not take place in ivory tower isolation, but only in communication. If it…

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The behavior and reactions of the oppressed, which lead the oppressor to practice cultural invasion, should evoke from the revolutionary a different…

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The object of a dialogical-liberterian action is not to 'dislodge' the oppressed from a mythological reality in order to 'bind' them to…

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An unauthentic word, one which is unable to transform reality, results when dichotomy is imposed upon its constitutive elements. When a word…

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Libertarian action must recognize this dependence as a weak point and must attempt through reflection and action to transform it into independence.…

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