Paulo Freire Quotes About Study

Quotes about: Study

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

  Paulo Freire

  Ideas, Study

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

• A reader does not suddenly comprehend what is being read or studied, in a snap, miraculously. Comprehension needs to be worked forged, by those who read and study; as subjects of the action, they must seek to employ appropriate instruments in order to carry out the task. For this very reason, reading and studying form a challenging task, one requiring patience and perseverance.

  Paulo Freire

  Perseverance, Reading, Learning

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

• ... teaching cannot be a process of transference of knowledge from the one teaching to the learner. This is the mechanical transference from which results machinelike memorization, which I have already criticized. Critical study correlates with teaching that is equally critical, which necessarily demands a critical way of comprehending and of realizing the reading of the word and that of the world, the reading of text and of context.

  Paulo Freire

  Teaching, Reading, Learning

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

• ... studying is a preparation for knowing; it is a patient and impatient exercise on the part of someone whose intent is not to know it all at once but to struggle to meet the timing of knowledge.

  Paulo Freire

  Struggle, Learning, Exercise

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

• Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral authority to coordinate the activities of the classroom.

  Paulo Freire

  Teacher, Educational, Philosophy

  Paulo Freire (2000). “Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage”, p.85, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

• It's no sin to make a critical study of Brazil's reality. A small percentage own land. Most people don't.

  Paulo Freire

  Reality, Land, People

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