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Paulo Freire Quotes

Paulo Freire quotes

Brazilian Educator September 19, 1921 – May 2, 1997

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[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 it. This individual is not afraid to confront, to listen, to see the world unveiled. This person is not afraid to meet the people or to enter into a dialogue with them. This person does not consider himself or herself the proprietor of history or of all people, or the liberator of the oppressed; but he or she does commit himself or herself, within history, to... Paulo Freire
For apart from inquiry, apart from the praxis, individuals cannot be truly human. Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other. Paulo Freire
Paulo Freire quote: "Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not..."
Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferals of information. Paulo Freire
Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future. Paulo Freire
Paulo Freire quote: "The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor..."
The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom. Paulo Freire
Paulo Freire quote: "Reading is not walking on the words; it's grasping the soul of..."
Reading is not walking on the words; it's grasping the soul of them. Paulo Freire
To simply think about the people, as the dominators do, without any self-giving in that thought, to fail to think with the people, is a sure way to cease being revolutionary leaders. Paulo Freire
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. Paulo Freire
Paulo Freire quote: "Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggl?"
Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggl? Paulo Freire
This, then, is the great humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves and their oppressors as well. Paulo Freire
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 or indirectly participate in revolution intend - conditioned by the myths of the old order - to make it their private revolution. The shadow of their former oppressor is still cast over them. Paulo Freire
After all, the task of the humanists is surely not that of pitting their slogans against the slogans of the oppressors, with the oppressed as the testing ground, "housing" the slogans of first one group and then the other. On the contrary, the task of the humanists is to see that the oppressed become aware of the fact that as dual beings, "housing" the oppressors within them selves, they cannot be truly human. 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 from among the oppressors. The oppressed must be their own example in the struggle for their redemption (Freire, 1970, p. 54). Paulo Freire
Paulo Freire quote: "The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a..."
The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders. Paulo Freire
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 they liberated: they oppress. Paulo Freire

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