Men and women Quote by Paulo Freire

The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape…

— Paulo Freire

“if i am not in the world simply to adapt to it, but rather transform it, and if it is not possible to change…

— Paulo Freire

The earliest language was body language and, since this language is the language of questions, if we limit the questions, and if we only…

— Paulo Freire

The behavior and reactions of the oppressed, which lead the oppressor to practice cultural invasion, should evoke from the revolutionary a different theory of…

— Paulo Freire

“The fact that certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation, thus moving from one pole of the…

— Paulo Freire

“When a word is deprived of its dimension of action,reflection automatically suffers as well and the word is changed into idle chatter, into verbalism,into…

— Paulo Freire

A reader does not suddenly comprehend what is being read or studied, in a snap, miraculously. Comprehension needs to be worked forged, by those…

— Paulo Freire

“If I do not love the world, if I do not love life, if I do not love people, I cannot enter into dialogue.”

— Paulo Freire

[Humans'] capacity to intervene, to compare, to judge, to decide, to choose, to desist makes them capable of acts of greatness, of dignity, and,…

— Paulo Freire

If I am a pure product of genetic, cultural, or class determination, I have no responsibility for my action in the world and, therefore,…

— Paulo Freire

“To begin always anew, to make, to reconstruct, and to not spoil, to refuse to bureaucratize the mind, to understand and to live life…

— Paulo Freire

“The man or woman who proclaims devotion to the cause of liberation yet is unable to enter into communion with the people, whom he…

— Paulo Freire