"To teach is part of the very fabric of learning."
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"Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral authority to coordinate the activities of the classroom."
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"Revolution is born as a social entity within the oppressor society."
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"When we live our lives with the authenticity demanded by the practice of teaching that is also learning and learning that is also teaching, we are participating in a total experience.... In this experience the beautiful, the decent, and the serious form a circle with hands joined."
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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 educator has the duty of not being neutral."
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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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"In order for the oppressed to be able to wage the struggle for their liberation, they must perceive the reality of oppression not as a closed world from which there is no exit , but as a limiting situation which they can transform."
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"Finally, it is important to make it clear that imagination is not an exercise for those detached from reality, those who live in the air. On the contrary, when we imagine something, we do it necessarily conditioned by a lack in our concrete reality. When children imagine free and happy schools, it is because their real schools deny them freedom and happiness."
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"language is never neutral"
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"People in communion liberate each other."
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"It is truly difficult to make a democracy. Democracy, like arty dream, is not made with spiritual words but with reflection and practice. It is not what I say that says I am a democrat, that I am not racist or machista but what I do. What I say must not be contradicted by what I do. It is what I do that bespeaks my faithfulness or not to what I say."
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"Authentic thinking, thinking that is concerned about reality, does not take place in ivory tower isolation, but only in communication. If it is true that thought has meaning only when generated by action upon the world, the subordination of students to teachers becomes impossible."
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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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"In problem-posing education, people develop their power to perceive critically the way they exist in the world with which and in which they find themselves; they come to see the world not as a static reality, but as a reality in process, in transformation."
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"The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors."
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"To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie."
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"Being tolerant does not mean acquiescing to the intolerable; it does not mean covering up disrespect; it does not mean coddling the aggressor or disguising aggression. Tolerance is the virtue that teaches us to live with the different. It teaches us to learn from and respect the different."
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"One of my major preoccupations is the approximation between what I say and what I do, between what I seem to be and what I am actually becoming."
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"The intellectual activity of those without power is always characterized as non-intellectual."
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