Paulo Freire
leader dialogue organize liberate oppress
“Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.”
― Paulo Freire (1921-1997)
structure dialogue change
“If the structure does not permit dialogue the structure must be changed”
― Paulo Freire (1921-1997)
past history understand build future
“Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future.”
― Paulo Freire (1921-1997)
identity struggle
“… Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle…”
― Paulo Freire (1921-1997)
born self-experience
“No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.”
― Paulo Freire (1921-1997)
oppressor promote community selected leader
“The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.”
― Paulo Freire (1921-1997)
prevent inquiry violencealienate decision human object
“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.”
― Paulo Freire (1921-1997)
language never neutral
“language is never neutral”
― Paulo Freire (1921-1997)
teacher artist shape student become themselves
“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.”
― Paulo Freire (1921-1997)
inquiry praxis human knowledge invention
“For apart from inquiry, apart from the praxis, individuals cannot be truly human. Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.”
― Paulo Freire (1921-1997)
humanistic historical task oppressed liberate themselves
“The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves...”
― Paulo Freire (1921-1997)
multitude always wrong
“The multitude is always in the wrong.”
― Paulo Freire (1921-1997)
liberate education act cognition transfer information
“Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferals of information.”
― Paulo Freire (1921-1997)
liberation praxis transform world
“Liberation is a praxis : the action and reflection of men and women upon their world in order to transform it.”
― Paulo Freire (1921-1997)
teach learn act
“Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching, and whoever learns teaches in the act of learning.”
― Paulo Freire (1921-1997)
fight move hope wait
“As long as I fight, I am moved by hope; and if I fight with hope, then I can wait.”
― Paulo Freire (1921-1997)
pursuit humanity isolation individualism fellowship solidarity
“The pursuit of full humanity, however, cannot be carried out in isolation or individualism, but only in fellowship and solidarity”
― Paulo Freire (1921-1997)
education conformity pactice freedom
"Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world."
― Paulo Freire (1921-1997)
teacher dialogue student learning teaching process grow
"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."
― Paulo Freire (1921-1997)
teaching learning act
"Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching, and whoever learns teaches in the act of learning."
― Paulo Freire (1921-1997)
education teacher student contradiction
"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."
― Paulo Freire (1921-1997)
dialogue humility
"Dialogue cannot exist without humility."
― Paulo Freire (1921-1997)
manipulation inoculate individual appetite burgeois success
"One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success."
― Paulo Freire (1921-1997)
study consume ideas re-create
"To study is not to consume ideas, but to create and re-create them."
― Paulo Freire (1921-1997)
reflection action independently
"Reflection and action must never be undertaken independently."
― Paulo Freire (1921-1997)
liberation childbirth painful
“Liberation is thus a childbirth, and a painful one.”
― Paulo Freire (1921-1997)
oppressed resemble oppressors
“The oppressed want at any cost to resemble the oppressors.”
― Paulo Freire (1921-1997)
oppressed liberation oppressors
“The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.”
― Paulo Freire (1921-1997)