Pedagogy of the oppressed Quotes by Paulo Freire

Education is suffering from narration sickness.

— Paulo Freire

Problem-posing education affirms men and women as beings in the process of becoming.

— Paulo Freire

Certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation.

— Paulo Freire

Any attempt to treat people as semihumans only dehumanizes them.

— Paulo Freire

The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.

— Paulo Freire

Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of the students.

— Paulo Freire

Only through communication can human life hold meaning.

— Paulo Freire

To speak a true word is to transform the world.

— Paulo Freire

One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success.

— Paulo Freire

Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in 'changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them';

— Paulo Freire

How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation?

— Paulo Freire

True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity.

— Paulo Freire

It is not suprising that the banking concept of education regards men as adaptable, manageable beings.

— Paulo Freire

Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously…

— Paulo Freire

Liberation is a praxis: the action and reflection of men and women upon their world in order to transform it.

— Paulo Freire

The unfinished character of human beings and the transformational character of reality necessitate that education be an ongoing activity.

— Paulo Freire

This pedagogy makes oppression and its causes objects of reflection by the oppressed, and from that reflection will come their necessary engagement…

— Paulo Freire

In order for the oppressed to be able to wage the struggle for their liberation, they must perceive the reality of oppression…

— Paulo Freire

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

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

This book will present some aspects of what the writer has termed the pedagogy of the oppressed, a pedagogy which must be…

— Paulo Freire

Implicit in the banking concept is the assumption of a dichotomy between human beings and the world: a person is merely in…

— Paulo Freire

Those truly committed to liberation must reject the banking concept in its entirety, adopting instead a concept of women and men as…

— Paulo Freire

But almost always, during the initial stage of the struggle, the oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors,…

— Paulo Freire

The more students work at storing the deposits entrusted to them, the less they develop the critical consciousness which would result from…

— Paulo Freire

How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation? Only as they discover themselves to…

— Paulo Freire