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Problem-posing education affirms men and women as beings in the process of becoming.
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 teacher is no longer merely the-one-who-teaches, but one who is him/herself taught in dialogue with the students, who in turn while being taught also teach. They become jointly responsible for a process in which all grow.
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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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It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors.
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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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For cultural invasion to succeed, it is essential that those invaded become convinced of their intrinsic inferiority.
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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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The former oppressors do not feel liberated. On the contrary, they genuinely consider themselves to be oppressed.
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Any attempt to treat people as semihumans only dehumanizes them.
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Through dialogue, the teacher-of-the-students and the students-of-the-teacher cease to exist and a new term emerges: teacher-student with students-teachers.
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Dialogue cannot exist without humility.
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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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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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One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding.
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