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No reality transforms itself.

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Paulo Freire
Age: 75 †
Born: 1921
Born: October 19
Died: 1997
Died: May 2
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Education is suffering from narration sickness.
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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.
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Problem-posing education affirms men and women as beings in the process of becoming.
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This capacity to go beyond the factors of conditioning is one of the obvious advantages of the human person.
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Only through communication can human life hold meaning.
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Whether the teacher is authoritarian, undisciplined, competent, incompetent, serious, irresponsible, involved, a lover of people and of life, cold, angry with the world, bureaucratic, excessively rational, or whatever else, he/she will not pass through the classroom without leaving his or her mark on the students.
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For people, 'here' signifies not merely a physical space, but also an historical space.
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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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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.
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It doesnt hurt to repeat here the statement, still rejected by many people in spite of its obviousness, that education is a political act.
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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.
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For cultural invasion to succeed, it is essential that those invaded become convinced of their intrinsic inferiority.
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The revolutionary's role is to liberate, and to be liberated, with the people--not to win them over.
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To study is not to consume ideas, but to create and re-create them.
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One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success.
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The oppressed find in the oppressors their model of 'manhood.'
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This pedagogy makes oppression and its causes objects of reflection by the oppressed, and from that reflection will come their necessary engagement in the struggle for their liberation. And in the struggle this pedagogy will be made and remade
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It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors.
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There is, in fact, no teaching without learning.
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some may think that to affirm dialogue—the encounter of women and men in the world in order to transform the world—is naively and subjectively idealistic. there is nothing, however, more real or concrete than people in the world and with the world, than humans with other humans.
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