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To speak a true word is to transform the world.

Paulo Freire

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Paulo Freire
Age: 75 †
Born: 1921
Born: October 19
Died: 1997
Died: May 2
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Paulo Reglus Neves Freire
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The behavior and reactions of the oppressed, which lead the oppressor to practice cultural invasion, should evoke from the revolutionary a different theory of action. What distinguishes revolutionary leaders from the dominant elite is not only their objectives, but their procedures.
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It is not possible to remake this country, to democratize it, humanize it, make it serious, as long as we have teenagers killing people for play and offending life, destroying the dream, and making love unviable. If education alone cannot transform society, without it society cannot change either.
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It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors.
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A revolutionary leadership must accordingly practice co-intentional education.
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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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No one can be authentically human while he prevents others from being so.
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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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Reading is not walking on the words it's grasping the soul of them.
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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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I cannot be a teacher without exposing who I am.
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No reality transforms itself.
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No pedagogy which is truly liberating can remain distant from the oppressed by treating them as unfortunates and by presenting for their emulation models from among the oppressors. The oppressed must be their own example in the struggle for their redemption (Freire, 1970, p. 54).
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The unfinished character of human beings and the transformational character of reality necessitate that education be an ongoing activity.
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Whereas banking education anesthetizes and inhibits creative power, problem-posing education involves a constant unveiling of reality. The former attempts to maintain the submersion of consciousness the latter strives for the emergence of consciousness and critical intervention in reality.
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For people, 'here' signifies not merely a physical space, but also an historical space.
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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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There is, in fact, no teaching without learning.
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I have never said, as is sometimes believed, or even suggested that lower-class children should not learn the so-called educated norm of the Portuguese language of Brazil. What I have said is that the problems of language always involve ideological questions and, along with them, questions of power.
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True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity.
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