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Learning Quotes by Paulo Freire
- There is, in fact, no teaching without learning.
- 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…
- Reading the word and learning how to write the word so one can later read it are preceded by learning how to write the world,…
- Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching, and whoever learns teaches in the act of learning.
- ... teaching cannot be a process of transference of knowledge from the one teaching to the learner. This is the mechanical transference from which results…
- Learning is a process where knowledge is presented to us, then shaped through understanding, discussion and reflection.
- We must be forewarned that only rarely does a text easily lend itself to the reader's curiosity... the reading of a text is a transaction…
- A reader does not suddenly comprehend what is being read or studied, in a snap, miraculously. Comprehension needs to be worked forged, by those who…
- ... studying is a preparation for knowing; it is a patient and impatient exercise on the part of someone whose intent is not to know…
- Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring…
- Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with…
- When we live our lives with the authenticity demanded by the practice of teaching that is also learning and learning that is also teaching, we…
- Although the teachers or the students are not the same, the person in charge of education is being formed or re-formed as he/she teaches, and…
- To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.
More Learning Quotes
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- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- You teach best what you most need to learn. — Richard Bach
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- Research is creating new knowledge. — Neil Armstrong
- Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind… — Mary Kay Ash