PFPaulo Freire

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Paulo Freire

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Quotations and sayings

01Undated

The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.

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02Undated

To simply think about the people, as the dominators do, without any self-giving in that thought, to fail to think with the people, is a sure way to cease being revolutionary leaders.

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03Undated

No oppressive order could permit the oppressed to begin to question: Why?

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04Undated

No oppressive order could permit the oppressed to being to question: Why?

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05Undated

The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom. Freedom would require them to eject this image and replace it with autonomy and responsibility. Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside man; nor is it an idea which becomes myth. It is rather the indispensable condition for the quest for human completion.

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06Undated

P20 - The rightist sectarian wants to slow down the historical process, to domesticate time and thus to domesticate men and women.

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07Undated

Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors, which in turn dehumanizes the oppressed

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08Undated

The trust of the people in the leaders reflects the confidence of the leaders in the people.

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09Undated

Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information.

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10Undated

Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.

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11Undated

It is not systematic education which somehow molds society, but, on the contrary, society which, according to its particular structure, shapes education in relation to the ends and interests of those who control the power in that society.

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12Undated

The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom.

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