Paulo Freire Quotes About Transformation

Quotes about: Transformation

• 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.

  Paulo Freire

  Educational, Learning, Creativity

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

• In problem-posing education, people develop their power to perceive critically the way they exist in the world with which and in which they find themselves; they come to see the world not as a static reality, but as a reality in process, in transformation.

  Paulo Freire

  Reality, People, World

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.83, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

• An unauthentic word, one which is unable to transform reality, results when dichotomy is imposed upon its constitutive elements. When a word is deprived of its dimension of action, reflection automatically suffers as well; and the word is changed into idle chatter, into verbalism, into an alienated and alienating “blah.” It becomes an empty word, one which cannot denounce the world, for denunciation is impossible without a commitment to transform, and there is no transformation without action.

  Paulo Freire

  Commitment, Reality, Reflection

• Transformation is only valid if it is carried out with the people, not for them. Liberation is like a childbirth, and a painful one. The person who emerges is a new person: no longer either oppressor or oppressed, but a person in the process of achieving freedom. It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors.

  Paulo Freire

  People, Transformation, Painful

• It is absolutely essential that the oppressed participate in the revolutionary process with an increasingly critical awareness of their role as subjects of the transformation.

  Paulo Freire

  Essentials, Roles, Transformation

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.127, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

• Submission to suffering is a form of annihilation, but transformation of suffering rekindles a faith that gives life.

  Paulo Freire

  Giving, Suffering, Transformation

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