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Reading is not walking on the words it's grasping the soul of them.

Paulo Freire

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Paulo Freire
Age: 75 †
Born: 1921
Born: October 19
Died: 1997
Died: May 2
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The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.
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The intellectual activity of those without power is always characterized as non-intellectual.
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Dialogue cannot exist without humility.
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Being tolerant does not mean acquiescing to the intolerable it does not mean covering up disrespect it does not mean coddling the aggressor or disguising aggression. Tolerance is the virtue that teaches us to live with the different. It teaches us to learn from and respect the different.
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How can I be an educator if I do not develop in myself a caring and loving attitude toward the student, which is indispensable on the part of one who is committed to teaching and to the education process itself.
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Education is freedom. Education will teach you how to do it yourself as opposed to asking someone else to do it for you. And around it our own town... Freemanville!
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The trust of the people in the leaders reflects the confidence of the leaders in the people.
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... there are moments in which the teacher, as the authority talks to the learners, says what must be done, establishes limits without which the very freedom of learners is lost in lawlessness, but these moments, in accordance with the political options of the educator, are alternated with others in which the educator speaks with the learner.
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How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation?
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For people, 'here' signifies not merely a physical space, but also an historical space.
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There is no true word that is not at the same time a praxis. Thus, to speak a true word is to transform the world.
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The more people participate in the process of their own education, and the more people participate in defining what kind of production to produce, and for what and why, the more people participate in the development of their selves. The more people become themselves, the better the democracy.
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Any attempt to treat people as semihumans only dehumanizes them.
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It would be a contradiction in terms if the oppressors not only defended but actually implemented a liberating education.
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