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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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For cultural invasion to succeed, it is essential that those invaded become convinced of their intrinsic inferiority.
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Education is suffering from narration sickness.
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It's really not possible for someone to imagine himself/herself as a subject in the process of becoming without having at the same time a disposition for change. And change of which she/he is not merely the victim but the subject.
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Within the word we find two dimensions-reflection and action. If one is sacrificed even in part, the other immediately suffers. To speak a true word is to transform the world.
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Implicit in the banking concept is the assumption of a dichotomy between human beings and the world: a person is merely in the world, not with the world or with others the individual is spectator, not re-creator.
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The behavior of the oppressed is a prescribed behavior, following as it does the guidelines of the oppressor.
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Reading is not walking on the words it's grasping the soul of them.
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The oppressed want at any cost to resemble the oppressors. They call themselves ignorant and say the 'professor' is the one who has knowledge and to whom they should listen. Almost never do they realize that they, too, 'know things' they have learned in their relations with the world.
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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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The intellectual activity of those without power is always characterized as non-intellectual.
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How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation?
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Submission to suffering is a form of annihilation, but transformation of suffering rekindles a faith that gives life.
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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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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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To study is not to consume ideas, but to create and re-create them.
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It would be extremely naive to expect the dominant classes to develop a type of education that would enable subordinate classes to perceive social injustices critically.
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True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity.
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Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of the students.
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