As one might expect, authoritarianism will at times cause children and students to adopt rebellious positions, defiant of any limit, discipline, or… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
... there are moments in which the teacher, as the authority talks to the learners, says what must be done, establishes limits… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The future isn't something hidden in a corner.The future is something we build in the present. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
It is essential for the oppressed to realize that when they accept the struggle for humanization they also accept, from that moment,… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
At times, I have been criticized by some philosophers of education, who place me in postures that they classify pejoratively as 'revolutionary.'… — 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
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
There is no true word that is not at the same time a praxis. Thus, to speak a true word is to… — 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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