Paulo Freire Quotes

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• Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.

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  Educational, Learning, Creativity

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.34, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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  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.

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  Learning, Hopeful, Inquiry

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.52, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage

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  Acts Of Courage, Acts Of Love

  Paulo Freire (2013). “Education for Critical Consciousness”, p.34, A&C Black

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  Learning is a process where knowledge is presented to us, then shaped through understanding, discussion and reflection.

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  Learning, Reflection, Understanding

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• The teacher is no longer merely the-one-who-teaches, but one who is him/herself taught in dialogue with the students, who in turn while being taught also teach. They become jointly responsible for a process in which all grow.

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  Teacher, Teaching, Taught

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  Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching, and whoever learns teaches in the act of learning.

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  Teaching, Teach

  Paulo Freire (2000). “Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage”, p.31, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• Educators need to know what happens in the world of the children with whom they work. They need to know the universe of their dreams, the language with which they skillfully defend themselves from the aggressiveness of their world, what they know independently of the school, and how they know it.

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  Dream, Children, School

  Paulo Freire (2005). “Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach”

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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 the students. What the educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves.

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  Teacher, Teaching, Mean

  Myles Horton, Paulo Freire, Brenda Bell, John Gaventa (1990). “We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change”, p.181, Temple University Press

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• The future isn't something hidden in a corner.The future is something we build in the present.

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  Corners

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• Because love is an act of courage, not of fear, love is a commitment to others. No matter where the oppressed are found, the act of love is commitment to their cause--the cause of liberation.

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  Commitment, Love Is, Matter

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.89, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• It would be extremely naive to expect the dominant classes to develop a type of education that would enable subordinate classes to perceive social injustices critically.

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  Educational, Class, Would Be

  Paulo Freire (1985). “The Politics of Education: Culture, Power, and Liberation”, South Hadley, Mass. : Bergin & Garvey

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• To study is not to consume ideas, but to create and re-create them.

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  Ideas, Study

  Paulo Freire (1985). “The Politics of Education: Culture, Power, and Liberation”, p.4, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• 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.

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  People, Decision, Leader

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.126, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• The more people participate in the process of their own education, and the more people participate in defining what kind of production to produce, and for what and why, the more people participate in the development of their selves. The more people become themselves, the better the democracy.

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  Self, People, Democracy

  Myles Horton, Paulo Freire, Brenda Bell, John Gaventa (1990). “We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change”, p.145, Temple University Press

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• No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.

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  Self, Experience, World

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• If the structure does not permit dialogue the structure must be changed

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  Doe, Structure, Permit

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• Human existence cannot be silent, nor can it be nourished by false words, but only by true words, with which people transform the world. To exist, humanly, is to name the world, to change it. Once named, the world in its turn reappears to the namers as a problem and requires of them a new naming. People are not built in silence, but in word, in work, in action-reflection.

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  Reflection, Names, People

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• Liberation is a praxis: the action and reflection of men and women upon their world in order to transform it.

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  Men, Reflection, Order

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.56, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.

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  Teacher, Students, Contradiction

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.52, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Sometimes a simple, almost insignificant gesture on the part of a teacher can have a profound formative effect on the life of a student.

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  Teacher, Educational, Philosophy

  Paulo Freire (2000). “Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage”, p.46, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• No one can be authentically human while he prevents others from being so.

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  Humans

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.61, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Experience teaches us not to assume that the obvious is clearly understood

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  Assuming, Obvious, Teach

  Paulo Freire (1985). “The Politics of Education: Culture, Power, and Liberation”, p.43, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

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  Peace, Honesty, Powerful

  Paulo Freire (1985). “The Politics of Education: Culture, Power, and Liberation”, p.122, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information

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  Information, Cognition, Pedagogy Of The Oppressed

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.57, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• It doesnt hurt to repeat here the statement, still rejected by many people in spite of its obviousness, that education is a political act.

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  Hurt, People, Political

  Paulo Freire (2005). “Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach”

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