For people, 'here' signifies not merely a physical space, but also an historical space. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The road to revolution involves openness to the people, not imperviousness to them; it involves communion with the people, not mistrust. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The revolutionary's role is to liberate, and to be liberated, with the people--not to win them over. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The trust of the people in the leaders reflects the confidence of the leaders in the people. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
It's no sin to make a critical study of Brazil's reality. A small percentage own land. Most people don't. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
It doesnt hurt to repeat here the statement, still rejected by many people in spite of its obviousness, that education is a… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world… — 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
It is not possible to remake this country, to democratize it, humanize it, make it serious, as long as we have teenagers… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
I am dealing with people and not with things. And, because I am dealing with people, I cannot refuse my wholehearted and… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The more people participate in the process of their own education, and the more people participate in defining what kind of production… — 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
I hope at least that the following will endure: my trust in the people, and my faith in men and women, and… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
In problem-posing education, people develop their power to perceive critically the way they exist in the world with which and in which… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Teachers and students (leadership and people), co-intent on reality, are both Subjects, not only in the task of unveiling that reality, and… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“The more radical the person is, the more fully he or she enters into reality so that, knowing it better, he or… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Education as the practice of freedom--as opposed to education as the practice of domination--denies that man is abstract, isolated, independent and unattached… — 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
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
Transformation is only valid if it is carried out with the people, not for them. Liberation is like a childbirth, and a… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Indeed, some "revolutionaries" brand as "innocents," "dreamers," or even "reactionaries"; those who would challenge this educational practice. But one does not liberate… — 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
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
In sum: banking theory and practice, as immobilizing and fixating forces, fail to acknowledge men and women as historical beings; problem-posing theory… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Whether the teacher is authoritarian, undisciplined, competent, incompetent, serious, irresponsible, involved, a lover of people and of life, cold, angry with the… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The oppressors develop a series of methods precluding any presentation of the world as a problem and showing it rather as a… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Organization is not only directly linked to unity, but a natural development of that unity. Accordingly, the leaders' pursuit of that unity… — 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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