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Education is suffering from narration sickness.

Paulo Freire

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Paulo Freire
Age: 75 †
Born: 1921
Born: October 19
Died: 1997
Died: May 2
Economist
Educator
Philosopher
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Teacher
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Paulo Reglus Neves Freire
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Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage
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I am dealing with people and not with things. And, because I am dealing with people, I cannot refuse my wholehearted and loving attention, even in personal matters, where I see that a student is in need of such attention.
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It is not suprising that the banking concept of education regards men as adaptable, manageable beings.
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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 oppressors develop a series of methods precluding any presentation of the world as a problem and showing it rather as a fixed entity, as something given--something to which people, as mere spectators, must adapt.
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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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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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Faith in people is an a priori requirement for dialogue.
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A fact which is not denied but whose truths are rationalized loses its objective base. It ceases to be concrete and becomes a myth created in defense of the class of the perceiver.
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Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in 'changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them.
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some may think that to affirm dialogue—the encounter of women and men in the world in order to transform the world—is naively and subjectively idealistic. there is nothing, however, more real or concrete than people in the world and with the world, than humans with other humans.
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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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Reflection and action must never be undertaken independently.
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To study is not to consume ideas, but to create and re-create them.
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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 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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Although the teachers or the students are not the same, the person in charge of education is being formed or re-formed as he/she teaches, and the person who is being taught forms him/herself in the process. ...There is, in fact, no teaching without learning.
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I cannot be a teacher without exposing who I am.
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