Paulo Freire
Educator
1921-09-19
Books by Paulo Freire
-
Pedagogy of the City
View on Amazon -
Teachers As Cultural Workers
Letters to Those Who Dare Teach With New Commentary by Peter McLaren, Joe L. Kincheloe, and Shirley Steinberg Expanded Edition
View on Amazon -
As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.
Quotes by Paulo Freire
-
P60- one does not liberate people by alienating them. P62- consciousness is the constant unveiling of reality.
Read quote -
The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves...
Read quote -
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 an educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves.
Read quote -
One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding.
Read quote -
As long as I fight, I am moved by hope; and if I fight with hope, then I can wait.
Read quote -
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 an educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves.
Read quote -
One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding.
Read quote -
As long as I fight, I am moved by hope; and if I fight with hope, then I can wait.
Read quote -
P60- one does not liberate people by alienating them. P62- consciousness is the constant unveiling of reality.
Read quote -
The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves...
Read quote -
It is not systematic education which somehow molds society, but, on the contrary, society which, according to its particular structure, shapes education in relation to the ends and interests of those who control the power in that society.
Read quote -
Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.
Read quote -
It is absolutely essential that the oppressed participate in the revolutionary process with an increasingly critical awareness of their role as subjects of the transformation.
Read quote -
Critical and liberating dialogue, which presupposes action, must be carried on with the oppressed at whatever the stage of their struggle for liberation. The content of that dialogue can and should vary in accordance with historical conditions and the level at which the oppressed perceive reality.
Read quote -
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
Read quote -
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.
Read quote