“No one can be authentically human while he prevents others from being so.” — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
What if we discover that our present way of life is irreconcilable with our vocation to become fully human? — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
This capacity to go beyond the factors of conditioning is one of the obvious advantages of the human person. — 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
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
Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence;… to alienate humans… — 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
[Humans'] capacity to intervene, to compare, to judge, to decide, to choose, to desist makes them capable of acts of greatness, of… — 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 earliest language was body language and, since this language is the language of questions, if we limit the questions, and if… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside… — 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
Human existence cannot be silent, nor can it be nourished by false words, but only by true words, with which people transform… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. False charity constrains the fearful and subdued, the… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Libertarian action must recognize this dependence as a weak point and must attempt through reflection and action to transform it into independence.… — 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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