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It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors.

Paulo Freire

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Paulo Freire
Age: 75 †
Born: 1921
Born: October 19
Died: 1997
Died: May 2
Economist
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Philosopher
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Paulo Reglus Neves Freire
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The intellectual activity of those without power is always characterized as non-intellectual.
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Through dialogue, the teacher-of-the-students and the students-of-the-teacher cease to exist and a new term emerges: teacher-student with students-teachers.
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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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I cannot be a teacher without exposing who I am.
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The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape the students. What the educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves.
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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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For cultural invasion to succeed, it is essential that those invaded become convinced of their intrinsic inferiority.
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How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation?
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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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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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Dialogue cannot exist without humility.
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To speak a true word is to transform the world.
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No reality transforms itself.
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In order for the oppressed to unite they must first cut the umbilical cord of magic and myth which binds them to the world of oppression the unity which links them to each other must be of a different nature.
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