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Teacher Quotes by Paulo Freire
- 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…
- Sometimes a simple, almost insignificant gesture on the part of a teacher can have a profound formative effect on the life of a student.
- 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…
- Teachers and students (leadership and people), co-intent on reality, are both Subjects, not only in the task of unveiling that reality, and thereby coming to…
- Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.
- Authentic thinking, thinking that is concerned about reality, does not take place in ivory tower isolation, but only in communication. If it is true that…
- Through dialogue, the teacher-of-the-students and the students-of-the-teacher cease to exist and a new term emerges: teacher-student with students-teachers.
- ... there are moments in which the teacher, as the authority talks to the learners, says what must be done, establishes limits without which the…
- Teacher preparation should go beyond the technical preparation of teachers and be rooted in the ethical formation both of selves and of history.
- The educator has the duty of not being neutral.
- The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape the…
- I cannot be a teacher without exposing who I am.
- The teacher is no longer merely the-one-who-teaches, but one who is him/herself taught in dialogue with the students, who in turn while being taught also…
- 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.
- ... there is no valid teaching from which there does not emerge something learned and through which the learner does not become capable of recreating…
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- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour
- Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise. — Mary Kay Ash
- Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. — Nancy Astor
- My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist,… — Chinua Achebe
- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood
- A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our… — Joe Baca
- Deprivation sometimes can be one of the most marvelous teachers. — Michele Bachmann