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Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage

Paulo Freire

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Paulo Freire
Age: 75 †
Born: 1921
Born: October 19
Died: 1997
Died: May 2
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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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Any attempt to treat people as semihumans only dehumanizes them.
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Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors, which in turn dehumanizes the oppressed
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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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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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The oppressed find in the oppressors their model of 'manhood.'
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Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.
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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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For people, 'here' signifies not merely a physical space, but also an historical space.
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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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A revolutionary leadership must accordingly practice co-intentional education.
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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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Education is suffering from narration sickness.
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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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Submission to suffering is a form of annihilation, but transformation of suffering rekindles a faith that gives life.
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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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The former oppressors do not feel liberated. On the contrary, they genuinely consider themselves to be oppressed.
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It is not suprising that the banking concept of education regards men as adaptable, manageable beings.
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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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Reflection and action must never be undertaken independently.
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