Paulo Freire quotes - page 4

No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are. (Paulo Freire)
Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence;... to alienate humans from their own decision making is to change them into objects. View quote
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Critical perception cannot be imposed. View quote
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The oppressed want at any cost to resemble the oppressors. View quote
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The more educators and the people investigate the people's thinking, and are thus jointly educated, the more they continue to investigate. View quote
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In the banking concept of education, knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those whom they consider to know nothing. View quote
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People will be truly critical if they live in the plenitude of the praxis, that is, if their action encompasses a critical reflection which increasingly organizes their thinking and thus leads them to move from a purely naive knowledge of reality to a higher level, one which enables them to perceive the causes of reality. View quote
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Almost never do they realize that they, too, 'know things' they have learned in their relations with the world. View quote
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Our converts, on the other hand, truly desire to transform the unjust order; but because of their background they believe that they must be the executors of the transformation. View quote
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The oppressor, who is himself dehumanized because he dehumanizes others, is unable to lead this struggle. View quote
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They have no consciousness of themselves as persons or as members of an oppressed class. (Paulo Freire)
The thematics which have come from the people return to them--not as contents to be deposited, but as problems to be solved. View quote
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It is necessary to trust in the oppressed and in their ability to reason. View quote
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As long as they live in the duality in which to be is to to be like, and to be like is to be like the oppressor, this contribution is impossible. View quote
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As the oppressor minority subordinates and dominates the majority, it must divide it and keep it divided in order to remain in power. View quote
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Reflection upon situationality is reflection about the very condition of existence: critical thinking by means which people discover each other to be 'in a situation. View quote
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It is accomplished by the oppressors depositing myths indispensable to the preservation of the status quo. View quote
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One might say they failed to perceive the untested feasibility lying beyond the limit-situations which engendered their needs. View quote
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Founding itself upon love, humility, and faith, dialogue becomes a horizontal relationship of which mutual trust between the dialoguers is a logical consequence. View quote
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The correct method lies in dialogue. The conviction of the oppressed that they must fight in their liberation is not a gift bestowed by the revolutionary leadership, but the result of their own conscientização. View quote
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Scientific and humanist revolutionary leaders, on the other hand, cannot believe in the myth of the ignorance of the people. (Paulo Freire)
The dialogical character of education as the practice of freedom does not begin when the teacher-student meets with the students-teachers in pedagogical situation, but rather when the former first asks herself or himself what she or he will dialogue with the latter about. View quote
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A real humanist can be identified more by his trust in the people, which engages him in their struggle. View quote
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For them, having more is an inalienable right. View quote
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Thematic investigation thus becomes a common striving towards awareness of reality and towards self-awareness, which makes this investigation a starting point for the educational process or for cultural action of a liberating character. View quote
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