Paulo Freire Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• 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.

  Paulo Freire

  Dream, Children, School

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

• language is never neutral

  Paulo Freire

  Language

• I have never said, as is sometimes believed, or even suggested that lower-class children should not learn the so-called educated norm of the Portuguese language of Brazil. What I have said is that the problems of language always involve ideological questions and, along with them, questions of power.

  Paulo Freire

  Children, Class, Society

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

• The earliest language was body language and, since this language is the language of questions, if we limit the questions, and if we only pay attention to or place values on spoken or written language, then we are ruling out a large area of human language.

  Paulo Freire

  Attention, Body, Pay

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