Paulo Freire

Paulo Freire

"One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding."
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"One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding."
Paulo Freire Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape the students. What the educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves."
Paulo Freire We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change
"The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom."
Paulo Freire
"It is not systematic education which somehow molds society, but, on the contrary, society which, according to its particular structure, shapes education in relation to the ends and interests of those who control the power in that society."
Paulo Freire
"Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students."
Paulo Freire
"Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information."
Paulo Freire
"The trust of the people in the leaders reflects the confidence of the leaders in the people."
Paulo Freire
"The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom. Freedom would require them to eject this image and replace it with autonomy and responsibility. Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside man; nor is it an idea which becomes myth. It is rather the indispensable condition for the quest for human completion."
Paulo Freire
"No oppressive order could permit the oppressed to being to question: Why?"
Paulo Freire
"No oppressive order could permit the oppressed to begin to question: Why?"
Paulo Freire
"...to alienate human beings from their own decision-making is to change them into objects."
Paulo Freire
"P40- this violence, as a process, is perpetuated from generation to generation of oppressors, who become its heirs and are shaped by it."
Paulo Freire
"P57/8- one must seek to live with others in solidarity..only through communication can human life hold meaning."
Paulo Freire
"P46- As long as the oppressed remain unaware of the causes of their condition, they fatalistically "accept" their exploitation."
Paulo Freire
"P60- one does not liberate people by alienating them. P62- consciousness is the constant unveiling of reality."
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
"The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves..."
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