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Only through communication can human life hold meaning.

Paulo Freire

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Paulo Freire
Age: 75 †
Born: 1921
Born: October 19
Died: 1997
Died: May 2
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True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity.
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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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... 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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I cannot be a teacher without exposing who I am.
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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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Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in 'changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them.
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Liberation is a praxis: the action and reflection of men and women upon their world in order to transform it.
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The role of the educator is one of tranquil possession of certitude in regard to the teaching of not only contents but also of 'correct thinking.'
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Reflection and action must never be undertaken independently.
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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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In order for the oppressed to be able to wage the struggle for their liberation, they must perceive the reality of oppression not as a closed world from which there is no exit , but as a limiting situation which they can transform.
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The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.
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A revolutionary leadership must accordingly practice co-intentional education.
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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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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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No reality transforms itself.
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Reading is not walking on the words it's grasping the soul of 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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For people, 'here' signifies not merely a physical space, but also an historical space.
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It is necessary that the weakness of the powerless is transformed into a force capable of announcing justice. For this to happen, a total denouncement of fatalism is necessary. We are transformative beings and not beings for accommodation.
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