Paulo Freire quotes - page 2

A fact which is not denied but whose truths are rationalized loses its objective base. It ceases to be concrete and becomes a myth created in defense of the class of the perceiver. (Paulo Freire)
Individuals who were submerged in reality, merely feeling their needs, emerge from reality and perceive the causes of their needs. View quote
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Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of students, with the ideological intent (often not perceived by educators) of indoctrinating them to adapt to the world of oppression. View quote
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Indeed, some revolutionaries brand as innocents, dreamers, or even reactionaries; those who would challenge this educational practice. But one does not liberate people by alienating them. Authentic liberation - the process of humanization - is not another deposit to be made in men. View quote
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The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors. View quote
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In order for the oppressed to unite they must first cut the umbilical cord of magic and myth which binds them to the world of oppression; the unity which links them to each other must be of a different nature. View quote
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It would be a contradiction in terms if the oppressors not only defended but actually implemented a liberating education. View quote
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For cultural invasion to succeed, it is essential that those invaded become convinced of their intrinsic inferiority. View quote
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Welfare programs as instruments of manipulation ultimately serve the end of conquest. They act as an anesthetic, distracting the oppressed from the true causes of their problems and from the concrete solutions of these problems. View quote
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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. View quote
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Certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation. (Paulo Freire)
This book will present some aspects of what the writer has termed the pedagogy of the oppressed, a pedagogy which must be forged with, not for, the oppressed (whether individuals or peoples) in the incessant struggle to regain their humanity. View quote
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Liberation is a praxis: the action and reflection of men and women upon their world in order to transform it. View quote
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Authentic thinking, thinking that is concerned about reality, does not take place in ivory tower isolation, but only in communication. If it is true that thought has meaning only when generated by action upon the world, the subordination of students to teachers becomes impossible. View quote
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It is not possible to remake this country, to democratize it, humanize it, make it serious, as long as we have teenagers killing people for play and offending life, destroying the dream, and making love unviable. If education alone cannot transform society, without it society cannot change either. View quote
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One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success. View quote
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Faith in people is an a priori requirement for dialogue. View quote
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The road to revolution involves openness to the people, not imperviousness to them; it involves communion with the people, not mistrust. View quote
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Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of the students. View quote
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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. View quote
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Yet only through communication can human life hold meaning. (Paulo Freire)
The revolutionary's role is to liberate, and to be liberated, with the people--not to win them over. View quote
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The atmosphere of the home is prolonged in school, where students soon discover that (as in the home) in order to achieve some satisfaction they must adapt to the precepts which have been set from above. One of these precepts is not to think. View quote
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They call themselves ignorant and say the 'professor' is the one who has knowledge and to whom they should listen. View quote
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People are fulfilled only to the extent that they create their world (which is a human world), and create it with their transforming labor. The fulfillment of humankind as human beings lies, then, in the fulfillment of the world. If for a person to be in the world of work is to be totally dependent, insecure, and permanently threatened--if their work does not belong to them--the person cannot be fulfilled. Work that is not free ceases to be a fulfilling pursuit and becomes an effective means of dehumanization. View quote
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