Paulo Freire Quotes - Page 2

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• Only through communication can human life hold meaning.

  Paulo Freire

  Educational, Philosophy, Communication

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

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• Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

  Paulo Freire

  Peace, Honesty, Powerful

  Paulo Freire (1985). “The Politics of Education: Culture, Power, and Liberation”, p.122, Greenwood Publishing Group

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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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• Human existence cannot be silent, nor can it be nourished by false words, but only by true words, with which people transform the world. To exist, humanly, is to name the world, to change it. Once named, the world in its turn reappears to the namers as a problem and requires of them a new naming. People are not built in silence, but in word, in work, in action-reflection.

  Paulo Freire

  Reflection, Names, People

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• If the structure does not permit dialogue the structure must be changed

  Paulo Freire

  Doe, Structure, Permit

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• Sometimes a simple, almost insignificant gesture on the part of a teacher can have a profound formative effect on the life of a student.

  Paulo Freire

  Teacher, Educational, Philosophy

  Paulo Freire (2000). “Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage”, p.46, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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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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• 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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• 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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• ... 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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• 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.

  Paulo Freire

  Men, Decision, Inquiry

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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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• 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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• The educator has the duty of not being neutral.

  Paulo Freire

  Teacher, Educator, Duty

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• Experience teaches us not to assume that the obvious is clearly understood

  Paulo Freire

  Assuming, Obvious, Teach

  Paulo Freire (1985). “The Politics of Education: Culture, Power, and Liberation”, p.43, Greenwood Publishing Group

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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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• 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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• 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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• The oppressors do not perceive their monopoly on having more as a privilege which dehumanizes others and themselves. They cannot see that, in the egoistic pursuit of having as a possessing class, they suffocate in their own possessions and no longer are; they merely have.

  Paulo Freire

  Class, Privilege, Monopoly

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.42, 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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• 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.

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  Trust, People, Leader

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

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• Reading is not walking on the words; it's grasping the soul of them.

  Paulo Freire

  Reading, Soul, Grasping

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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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• As one might expect, authoritarianism will at times cause children and students to adopt rebellious positions, defiant of any limit, discipline, or authority. But it will also lead to apathy, excessive obedience, uncritical conformity, lack of resistance against authoritarian discourse, self-abnegation, and fear of freedom.

  Paulo Freire

  Children, Self, Discipline

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

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