Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of students, with the ideological intent (often not perceived by educators) of indoctrinating… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
With the establishment of a relationship of oppression, violence has already begun. Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed.… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
To simply think about the people, as the dominators do, without any self-giving in that thought, to fail to think with the… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Every relationship of domination, of exploitation, of oppression is by definition violent, whether or not the violence is expressed by drastic means.… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
In order for the oppressed to unite they must first cut the umbilical cord of magic and myth which binds them to… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The object of a dialogical-liberterian action is not to 'dislodge' the oppressed from a mythological reality in order to 'bind' them to… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
This pedagogy makes oppression and its causes objects of reflection by the oppressed, and from that reflection will come their necessary engagement… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“The rightist sectarian wants to slow down the historical process, to domesticate time and thus to domesticate men and women.” — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“No pedagogy which is truly liberating can remain distant from the oppressed by treating them as unfortunates and by presenting for their… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The parent-child relationship in the home usually reflects the objective cultural conditions of the surrounding social structure. If the conditions which penetrate… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
In order for the oppressed to be able to wage the struggle for their liberation, they must perceive the reality of oppression… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Even revolution, which transforms a concrete situation of oppression by establishing the process of liberation, must confront this phenomenon. Many of the… — 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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