Love Quotes by Paulo Freire

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

“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

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

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

“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

“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

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

“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

[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

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

“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

“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

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

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

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