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The hope of remaking the world is indispensable in the struggle of oppressed men and women.

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 oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.
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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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I cannot be a teacher without exposing who I am.
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At times, I have been criticized by some philosophers of education, who place me in postures that they classify pejoratively as 'revolutionary.' But I have had the satisfaction of being invited to work in societies making progressive efforts without wavering. They were changing, and so they called on me.
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It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors.
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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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... there are moments in which the teacher, as the authority talks to the learners, says what must be done, establishes limits without which the very freedom of learners is lost in lawlessness, but these moments, in accordance with the political options of the educator, are alternated with others in which the educator speaks with the learner.
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It is in our incompleteness, of which we are aware, that education as a permanent process is grounded. Women and men are capable of being educated only to the extent that they are capable of recognizing themselves as unfinished.
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