Language Quote by Paulo Freire

““With the insight that genuine literacy involves “reading the word and the world,” renowned educator Paulo Freire helped open the door to a broader understanding of the term, one that moves from a strict decoding and reproducing of language into issues of economics, health, and sustainable development””

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

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

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

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

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

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“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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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