If the structure does not permit dialogue the structure must be changed — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“One must seek to live with others in solidarity..only through communication can human life hold meaning.” — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“If I do not love the world, if I do not love life, if I do not love people, I cannot enter… — 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
If it is in speaking their word that people, by naming the world, transform it, dialogue imposes itself as the way by… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The teacher is no longer merely the-one-who-teaches, but one who is him/herself taught in dialogue with the students, who in turn while… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The more radical the person is, the more fully he or she enters into reality so that, knowing it better, he or… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
some may think that to affirm dialogue—the encounter of women and men in the world in order to transform the world—is naively… — 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
Critical and liberating dialogue, which presupposes action, must be carried on with the oppressed at whatever the stage of their struggle for… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“this dialogue cannot be reduced to the act of one person’s “depositing” ideas in another, nor can it become a simple exchange… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“In a situation of manipulation, the Left is almost always tempted by a “quick return to power,” forgets the necessity of joining… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
[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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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