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Doe Quotes by Paulo Freire

13 Doe quotes by Paulo Freire

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Paulo Freire’s writing challenges us to rethink power and pedagogy, and his 13 brief remarks on Doe carry that same critical spirit. Though the set is modest, each sentence invites you to consider how everyday concepts can be reshaped by reflective thought.

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If the structure does not permit dialogue the structure must be changed

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The behavior of the oppressed is a prescribed behavior, following as it does the guidelines of the oppressor.

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... there is no valid teaching from which there does not emerge something learned and through which the learner does not become…

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

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We must be forewarned that only rarely does a text easily lend itself to the reader's curiosity... the reading of a text…

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Being tolerant does not mean acquiescing to the intolerable; it does not mean covering up disrespect; it does not mean coddling the…

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“The more radical the person is, the more fully he or she enters into reality so that, knowing it better, he or…

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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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Coherently democratic authority carries the conviction that true discipline does not exist in the muteness of those who have been silenced but…

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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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No one can learn tolerance in a climate of irresponsibility, which does not produce democracy. The act of tolerating requires a climate…

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Indeed, some "revolutionaries" brand as "innocents," "dreamers," or even "reactionaries"; those who would challenge this educational practice. But one does not liberate…

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“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…

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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, by those…

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“If I do not love the world, if I do not love life, if I do not love people, I cannot enter into dialogue.”

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[Humans'] capacity to intervene, to compare, to judge, to decide, to choose, to desist makes them capable of acts of greatness, of dignity, and,…

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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 and, therefore,…

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“To begin always anew, to make, to reconstruct, and to not spoil, to refuse to bureaucratize the mind, to understand and to live life…

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“The man or woman who proclaims devotion to the cause of liberation yet is unable to enter into communion with the people, whom he…

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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 held by…

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Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence;… to alienate humans from their…

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

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