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To study is not to consume ideas, but to create and re-create them.

Paulo Freire

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Paulo Freire
Age: 75 †
Born: 1921
Born: October 19
Died: 1997
Died: May 2
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To simply think about the people, as the dominators do, without any self-giving in that thought, to fail to think with the people, is a sure way to cease being revolutionary leaders.
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Dialogue cannot exist without humility.
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The oppressors do not perceive their monopoly on having more as a privilege which dehumanizes others and themselves. They cannot see that, in the egoistic pursuit of having as a possessing class, they suffocate in their own possessions and no longer are they merely have.
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No reality transforms itself.
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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 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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The former oppressors do not feel liberated. On the contrary, they genuinely consider themselves to be oppressed.
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This book will present some aspects of what the writer has termed the pedagogy of the oppressed, a pedagogy which must be forged with, not for, the oppressed (whether individuals or peoples) in the incessant struggle to regain their humanity.
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Being tolerant does not mean acquiescing to the intolerable it does not mean covering up disrespect it does not mean coddling the aggressor or disguising aggression. Tolerance is the virtue that teaches us to live with the different. It teaches us to learn from and respect the different.
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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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The revolutionary's role is to liberate, and to be liberated, with the people--not to win them over.
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The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.
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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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Problem-posing education affirms men and women as beings in the process of becoming.
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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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One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success.
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Critical reflection on practice is a requirement of the relationship between theory and practice. Otherwise theory becomes simply blah, blah, blah, and practice, pure activism.
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In the banking concept of education, knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those whom they consider to know nothing... The teacher presents himself to his students as their necessary opposite by considering their ignorance absolute, he justifies his own existence.
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It is not suprising that the banking concept of education regards men as adaptable, manageable beings.
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