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

Paulo Freire

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Paulo Freire
Age: 75 †
Born: 1921
Born: October 19
Died: 1997
Died: May 2
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Only through communication can human life hold meaning.
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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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To speak a true word is to transform the world.
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Education is suffering from narration sickness.
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Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage
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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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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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Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence… to alienate humans from their own decision making is to change them into objects.
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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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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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There is, in fact, no teaching without learning.
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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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