Paulo Freire Quotes

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• The intellectual activity of those without power is always characterized as non-intellectual.
• It would be extremely naive to expect the dominant classes to develop a type of education that would enable subordinate classes to perceive social injustices…
• Love is an act of courage.
• No reality transforms itself.
• Only through communication can human life hold meaning.
• The parent-child relationship in the home usually reflects the objective cultural conditions of the surrounding social structure. If the conditions which penetrate the home are…
• The atmosphere of the home is prolonged in the school, where the students soon discover thatin order to achieve some satisfaction they must adapt to…
• There is, in fact, no teaching without learning.
• Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral…
• This is the road I have tried to follow as a teacher: living my convictions; being open to the process of knowing and being sensitive…
• One of my major preoccupations is the approximation between what I say and what I do, between what I seem to be and what I…
• The role of the educator is one of tranquil possession of certitude in regard to the teaching of not only contents but also of 'correct…
• Sometimes a simple, almost insignificant gesture on the part of a teacher can have a profound formative effect on the life of a student.
• No matter how much someone may irritate me, I have no right to puff myself up with my own self-importance so as to declare that…
• It is impossible to talk of respect for students for the dignity that is in the process of coming to be, for the identities that…
• Human existence cannot be silent, nor can it be nourished by false words, but only by true words, with which people transform the world. To…
• I am dealing with people and not with things. And, because I am dealing with people, I cannot refuse my wholehearted and loving attention, even…
• Whether the teacher is authoritarian, undisciplined, competent, incompetent, serious, irresponsible, involved, a lover of people and of life, cold, angry with the world, bureaucratic, excessively…
• How can I be an educator if I do not develop in myself a caring and loving attitude toward the student, which is indispensable on…
• This is the sense in which I am obliged to be a listener. To listen to the student's doubts, fears, and incompetencies that are part…

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