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“No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.”
-- Paulo Freire
#Self #World #Born
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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 #World
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“Faith in people is an a priori requirement for dialogue.”
-- Paulo Freire
#People #Requirements #Dialogue
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“Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information”
-- Paulo Freire
#Information #Cognition #Liberating
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“Liberation is a praxis: the action and reflection of men and women upon their world in order to transform it.”
-- Paulo Freire
#Men #Reflection #Order
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“Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people.”
-- Paulo Freire
#Profound #People #World
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“Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.”
-- Paulo Freire
#People #Decision #Leader
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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
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“If I am a pure product of genetic, cultural, or class determination, I have no responsibility for my action in the world and, therefore, it is not possible for me to speak of ethics. Of course, this assumption of responsibility does not mean that we are not conditioned genetically, culturally, and socially. It means that we know ourselves to be conditioned but not determined.”
-- Paulo Freire
#Determination #Mean #Responsibility
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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
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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 #Appetite
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“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
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“There is, in fact, no teaching without learning.”
-- Paulo Freire
#Educational #Philosophy #Teaching
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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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“Implicit in the banking concept is the assumption of a dichotomy between human beings and the world: a person is merely in the world, not with the world or with others; the individual is spectator, not re-creator.”
-- Paulo Freire
#World #Banking #Assumption
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“Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.”
-- Paulo Freire
#Teacher #Students #Contradiction
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“Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in 'changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them';”
-- Paulo Freire
#Lying #Consciousness #Situation
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“Learning is a process where knowledge is presented to us, then shaped through understanding, discussion and reflection.”
-- Paulo Freire
#Learning #Reflection #Understanding
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“Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.”
-- Paulo Freire
#Learning #Hopeful #Inquiry
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“I cannot be a teacher without exposing who I am.”
-- Paulo Freire
#Teacher #Who I Am
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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 #What If #Way
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“Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching, and whoever learns teaches in the act of learning.”
-- Paulo Freire
#Teaching #Teach
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“No reality transforms itself.”
-- Paulo Freire
#Educational #Philosophy #Reality
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“Only through communication can human life hold meaning.”
-- Paulo Freire
#Educational #Philosophy #Communication
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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
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“If the structure does not permit dialogue the structure must be changed”
-- Paulo Freire
#Doe #Permit #Structure
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“Through dialogue, the teacher-of-the-students and the students-of-the-teacher cease to exist and a new term emerges: teacher-student with students-teachers.”
-- Paulo Freire
#Teacher #Students #Term
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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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“[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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“… Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle…”
-- Paulo Freire
#Real #Struggle #Identity
