Paulo Freire Quotes - Page 2

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• Dialogue cannot exist without humility.

  Paulo Freire

  Humility, Dialogue

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.64, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors.

  Paulo Freire

  Oppressed, Oppressors

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.40, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I cannot be a teacher without exposing who I am.

  Paulo Freire

  Teacher, Philosophy, Educational

  Paulo Freire (2000). “Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage”, p.87, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• Attempting to liberate the oppressed without their reflective participation in the act of liberation is to treat them as objects that must be saved from a burning building.

  Paulo Freire

  Burning, Building, Treats

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.46, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Critical reflection on practice is a requirement of the relationship between theory and practice. Otherwise theory becomes simply "blah, blah, blah, " and practice, pure activism.

  Paulo Freire

  Reflection, Practice, Requirements

  Paulo Freire (2000). “Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage”, p.30, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• To speak a true word is to transform the world.

  Paulo Freire

  World, Speak, Praxis

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.63, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Love is an act of courage.

  Paulo Freire

  Educational, Philosophy, Love Is

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.64, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Reflection and action must never be undertaken independently.

  Paulo Freire

  Reflection, Action, Discernment

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• One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success.

  Paulo Freire

  Manipulation, Individual, Method

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.149, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• The educator has the duty of not being neutral.

  Paulo Freire

  Teacher, Educator, Duty

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• People in communion liberate each other.

  Paulo Freire

  People, Communion

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• The trust of the people in the leaders reflects the confidence of the leaders in the people.

  Paulo Freire

  Trust, People, Leader

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.120, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• The more students work at storing the deposits entrusted to them, the less they develop the critical consciousness which would result from their intervention in the world as transformers of that world. The more completely they accept the passive role impressed on them, the more they tend simply to adapt to the world as it is and to the fragmented view of reality deposited in them.

  Paulo Freire

  Reality, Views, Roles

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• 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

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• ... 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”

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• No reality transforms itself.

  Paulo Freire

  Educational, Philosophy, Reality

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.38, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Within the word we find two dimensions-reflection and action. If one is sacrificed even in part, the other immediately suffers. To speak a true word is to transform the world.

  Paulo Freire

  Reflection, Two, Suffering

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.63, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• The world is split between those who do not sleep because they are hungry and those who do not sleep because they are afraid of those who are hungry.

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  Sleep, World, Splits

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• Only through communication can human life hold meaning.

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  Educational, Philosophy, Communication

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.55, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. False charity constrains the fearful and subdued, the "rejects of life," to extend their trembling hands. True generosity lies in striving so that these hands--whether of individuals or entire peoples--need be extended less and less in supplication, so that more and more they become human hands which work and, working, transform the world.

  Paulo Freire

  Lying, Fighting, Hands

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.32, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• What if we discover that our present way of life is irreconcilable with our vocation to become fully human?

  Paulo Freire

  Life, Destiny, What If

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• This is the road I have tried to follow as a teacher: living my convictions; being open to the process of knowing and being sensitive to the experience of teaching as an art; being pushed forward by the challenges that prevent me from bureaucratizing my practice; accepting my limitations, yet always conscious of the necessary effort to overcome them and aware that I cannot hide them because to do so would be a failure to respect both my students and myself as a teacher.

  Paulo Freire

  Teacher, Art, Educational

  Paulo Freire (2000). “Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage”, p.69, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.

  Paulo Freire

  Strive, Liberation, Pedagogy Of The Oppressed

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.32, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• [T]he more radical the person is, the more fully he or she enters into reality so that, knowing it better, he or she can transform it. This individual is not afraid to confront, to listen, to see the world unveiled. This person is not afraid to meet the people or to enter into a dialogue with them. This person does not consider himself or herself the proprietor of history or of all people, or the liberator of the oppressed; but he or she does commit himself or herself, within history, to fight at their side.

  Paulo Freire

  Fighting, Reality, Knowing

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• There is, in fact, no teaching without learning.

  Paulo Freire

  Educational, Philosophy, Teaching

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

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