Quotes by Paulo Freire

About Paulo Freire:

Paulo Reglus Neves Freire is best known for his influential work, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, which is considered one of the foundational texts of the critical pedagogy movement.
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P57/8- one must seek to live with others in solidarity..only through communication can human life hold meaning.

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P40- this violence, as a process, is perpetuated from generation to generation of oppressors, who become its heirs and are shaped by it.

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P46- As long as the oppressed remain unaware of the causes of their condition, they fatalistically "accept" their exploitation.

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P60- one does not liberate people by alienating them. P62- consciousness is the constant unveiling of reality.

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The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves...

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The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom. Freedom would require them to eject this image and replace it with autonomy and responsibility. Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by ...

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The oppressors do not perceive their monopoly on as a privilege which dehumanizes others and themselves. They cannot see that, in the egoistic pursuit of as a possessing class, they suffocate in their own possessions and no longer they merely For the...

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...to alienate human beings from their own decision-making is to change them into objects.

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No oppressive order could permit the oppressed to being to question: Why?

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[The myth of the ] implies the existence of someone who decrees the ignorance of someone else. The one who is doing the decreeing defines himself and the class to which he belongs as those who know or were born to know; he thereby defines others as a...

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At a certain point in their existential experience, the oppressed feel an irresistible attraction toward the oppressor and his way of life. Sharing this way of life becomes an overpowering aspiration.

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The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom.

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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.

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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.

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Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information.

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At times, I have been criticized by some philosophers of education, who place me in postures that they classify pejoratively as 'revolutionary.' But I have had the satisfaction of being invited to work in societies making progressive efforts without ...

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The trust of the people in the leaders reflects the confidence of the leaders in the people.

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Revolution is born as a social entity within the oppressor society.

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Every society needs to examine itself in relation to other societies.

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NamePaulo Freire
  • Descriptioneducator and philosopher
  • BornSeptember 19, 1921
  • DiedMay 2, 1997
  • CountryBrazil
  • ProfessionEducationist; Author; Teacher