Paulo Freire Quotes


Without a sense of identity there can be no real struggle Paulo Freire Political 176
The educator has the duty of not being neutral. Paulo Freire Education 119
The trust of the people in the leaders reflects the confidence of the leaders in the people. Paulo Freire Trust 117
The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole but rather selected leaders. Paulo Freire Oppression 72
One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion good intentions notwithstanding. Paulo Freire Culture 65
The educator with a democratic vision or posture cannot avoid in his teaching praxis insisting on the critical capacity, curiosity, and autonomy of the learner. Paulo Freire Democracy 48
Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future. Paulo Freire Oppression 46
The more we become able to become a child again to keep ourselves childlike the more we can understand that because we love the world and we are open to understanding to comprehension that when we kill the child in us we are no longer. Paulo Freire Childhood 37
To simply think about the people as the dominators do without any selfgiving in that thought to fail to think with the people is a sure way to cease being revolutionary leaders. Paulo Freire Oppression 36
Washing ones hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful not to be neutral. Paulo Freire Power 32
The teacher is of course an artist but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile can shape the students. What the educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves. Paulo Freire Teaching 31
Leaders who do not act dialogically but insist on imposing their decisions do not organize the peoplethey manipulate them. They do not liberate nor are they liberated they oppress. Paulo Freire Oppression 30
It is absolutely essential that the oppressed participate in the revolutionary process with an increasingly critical awareness of their role as subjects of the transformation. Paulo Freire Absolutely 27

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