Education reform Quote by Paulo Freire

“No pedagogy which is truly liberating can remain distant from the oppressed by treating them as unfortunates and by presenting for their emulation models…

— Paulo Freire

This book will present some aspects of what the writer has termed the pedagogy of the oppressed, a pedagogy which must be forged with,…

— Paulo Freire

How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation? Only as they discover themselves to be 'hosts'…

— Paulo Freire

How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation?

— Paulo Freire

This pedagogy makes oppression and its causes objects of reflection by the oppressed, and from that reflection will come their necessary engagement in the…

— Paulo Freire

The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.

— Paulo Freire

The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.

— Kim Il-sung

Our task is not to liberate the oppressed, but to liberate the oppressors

— Nelson Mandela

“There are no worse oppressors than those who have been oppressed themselves. For they will justify all means of self-preservation, including the persecution and…

— H. N. Ellessy

“Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.”

— Audre Lorde

The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves...

— Paulo Freire

In order for the oppressed to be able to wage the struggle for their liberation, they must perceive the reality of oppression not as…

— Paulo Freire