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Word Quotes by Paulo Freire
- 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…
- To speak a true word is to transform the world.
- 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,…
- There is no true word that is not at the same time a praxis. Thus, to speak a true word is to transform the world.
- If it is in speaking their word that people, by naming the world, transform it, dialogue imposes itself as the way by which they achieve…
- Within the word we find two dimensions-reflection and action. If one is sacrificed even in part, the other immediately suffers. To speak a true word…
- ... teaching cannot be a process of transference of knowledge from the one teaching to the learner. This is the mechanical transference from which results…
- An unauthentic word, one which is unable to transform reality, results when dichotomy is imposed upon its constitutive elements. When a word is deprived of…
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