The hope of remaking the world is indispensable in the struggle of oppressed men and women. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Within the word we find two dimensions-reflection and action. If one is sacrificed even in part, the other immediately suffers. To speak… — 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
Liberation is a praxis: the action and reflection of men and women upon their world in order to transform it. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The world is split between those who do not sleep because they are hungry and those who do not sleep because they… — 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
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
The more we become able to become a child again, to keep ourselves childlike, the more we can understand that because we… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Educators need to know what happens in the world of the children with whom they work. They need to know the universe… — 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
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
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
Implicit in the banking concept is the assumption of a dichotomy between human beings and the world: a person is merely in… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Those truly committed to liberation must reject the banking concept in its entirety, adopting instead a concept of women and men as… — 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
... teaching cannot be a process of transference of knowledge from the one teaching to the learner. This is the mechanical transference… — 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
“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
If I am a pure product of genetic, cultural, or class determination, I have no responsibility for my action in the world… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. False charity constrains the fearful and subdued, the… — 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
The more students work at storing the deposits entrusted to them, the less they develop the critical consciousness which would result from… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
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 Copy Share Image
Reading the word and learning how to write the word so one can later read it are preceded by learning how to… — 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
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
Authentic thinking, thinking that is concerned about reality, does not take place in ivory tower isolation, but only in communication. If it… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The oppressed want at any cost to resemble the oppressors." "They call themselves ignorant and say the 'professor' is the one who… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
An unauthentic word, one which is unable to transform reality, results when dichotomy is imposed upon its constitutive elements. When a word… — 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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