Paulo Freire Quotes:
Ocupation: Educator
Life: September 19, 1921 - May 2, 1997
Birthday: September 19
Death: May 2
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.
topic: Commitment, Reality, Reflection, Idle Chatter, Pedagogy Of The Oppressed, Empty Words
