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Them Quotes by Paulo Freire
- 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…
- 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…
- Attempting to liberate the oppressed without their reflective participation in the act of liberation is to treat them as objects that must be saved from…
- Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in 'changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them';
- Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of students, with the ideological intent (often not perceived by educators) of indoctrinating them to adapt…
- The revolutionary's role is to liberate, and to be liberated, with the people--not to win them over.
- The road to revolution involves openness to the people, not imperviousness to them; it involves communion with the people, not mistrust.
- In order for the oppressed to unite they must first cut the umbilical cord of magic and myth which binds them to the world of…
- The more students work at storing the deposits entrusted to them, the less they develop the critical consciousness which would result from their intervention in…
- To study is not to consume ideas, but to create and re-create them.
- [Humans'] capacity to intervene, to compare, to judge, to decide, to choose, to desist makes them capable of acts of greatness, of dignity, and, at…
- I have never said, as is sometimes believed, or even suggested that lower-class children should not learn the so-called educated norm of the Portuguese language…
- Finally, it is important to make it clear that imagination is not an exercise for those detached from reality, those who live in the air.…
- [T]he more radical the person is, the more fully he or she enters into reality so that, knowing it better, he or she can transform…
- Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are…
- Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence;… to alienate humans from their own…
- Even revolution, which transforms a concrete situation of oppression by establishing the process of liberation, must confront this phenomenon. Many of the oppressed who directly…
- Libertarian action must recognize this dependence as a weak point and must attempt through reflection and action to transform it into independence. However, not even…
- No pedagogy which is truly liberating can remain distant from the oppressed by treating them as unfortunates and by presenting for their emulation models from…
- Reading is not walking on the words; it's grasping the soul of them.
More Them Quotes
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- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
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