Paulo Freire

Paulo Freire

Educator, Author

Paulo Freire was a Brazilian educator and philosopher known for his influential work on critical pedagogy and the role of education in social change.

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Born
September 19, 1921
Died
May 2, 1997
Quotes
178
Rank
#339

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"Libertarian action must recognize this dependence as a weak point and must attempt through reflection and action to transform it into independence. However, not even the best-intentioned leadership can bestow independence as a gift. The liberation of the oppressed is a liberation of women and men, not things. Accordingly, while no one liberates himself by his own efforts alone, neither is he liberated by others. Liberation, a human phenomenon, cannot be achieved by semihumans. Any attempt to treat people as semihumans only dehumanizes them."

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"It is not possible to remake this country, to democratize it, humanize it, make it serious, as long as we have teenagers killing people for play and offending life, destroying the dream, and making love unviable. If education alone cannot transform society, without it society cannot change either."

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"This is the sense in which I am obliged to be a listener. To listen to the student's doubts, fears, and incompetencies that are part of the learning process. It is in listening to the student that I learn to speak with him or her."

Teaching Doubt Listening
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"Certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation."

Struggle Class Members
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"Those truly committed to liberation must reject the banking concept in its entirety, adopting instead a concept of women and men as conscious beings and consciousness as consciousness intent upon the world."

Men Banking World
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"Whereas banking education anesthetizes and inhibits creative power, problem-posing education involves a constant unveiling of reality. The former attempts to maintain the submersion of consciousness; the latter strives for the emergence of consciousness and critical intervention in reality."

Reality Creative Unveiling
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"... there is no valid teaching from which there does not emerge something learned and through which the learner does not become capable of recreating and remaking what has been taught."

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"Welfare programs as instruments of manipulation ultimately serve the end of conquest. They act as an anesthetic, distracting the oppressed from the true causes of their problems and from the concrete solutions of these problems."

Welfare Programs Manipulation Causes
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"The role of the problem-posing educator is to create, together with the students, the conditions under which knowledge at the level of the doxa is superseded by true knowledge, at the level of the logos."

Together Roles Levels
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"The road to revolution involves openness to the people, not imperviousness to them; it involves communion with the people, not mistrust."

People Revolution Communion
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"The revolutionary's role is to liberate, and to be liberated, with the people--not to win them over."

Winning People Roles
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"No pedagogy which is truly liberating can remain distant from the oppressed by treating them as unfortunates and by presenting for their emulation models from among the oppressors. The oppressed must be their own example in the struggle for their redemption (Freire, 1970, p. 54)."

Struggle Example Redemption
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"To simply think about the people, as the dominators do, without any self-giving in that thought, to fail to think with the people, is a sure way to cease being revolutionary leaders."

Thinking Self Revolutionary Leaders
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"The atmosphere of the home is prolonged in the school, where the students soon discover thatin order to achieve some satisfaction they must adapt to the precepts which have ben set from above. One of these precepts is not to think."

Philosophy Educational School
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"This capacity to go beyond the factors of conditioning is one of the obvious advantages of the human person."

Advantage Conditioning Capacity
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"It is impossible to talk of respect for students for the dignity that is in the process of coming to be, for the identities that are in the process of construction, without taking into consideration the conditions in which they are living and the importance of the knowledge derived from life experience, which they bring with them to school. I can in no way underestimate such knowledge. Or what is worse, ridicule it."

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