List of Paulo Freire Quotes

Individuals Who Were Submerged In Reality, Merely Feeling Their Needs, Emerge From Reality And Perceive The Causes Of Their Needs.

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 Wavering. They Were Changing, And So They Called On Me.

A Fact Which Is Not Denied But Whose Truths Are Rationalized Loses Its Objective Base. It Ceases To Be Concrete And Becomes A Myth Created In Defense Of The Class Of The Perceiver.

It Is Not Suprising That The Banking Concept Of Education Regards Men As Adaptable, Manageable Beings.

We Must Be Forewarned That Only Rarely Does A Text Easily Lend Itself To The Reader's Curiosity... The Reading Of A Text Is A Transaction Between The Reader And The Text, Which Mediates The Encounter Between The Reader And Writer. It Is A Composition Between The Reader And The Writer In Which The Reader "rewrites" The Text Making A Determined Effort Not To Betray The Author's Spirit.

It Would Be A Contradiction In Terms If The Oppressors Not Only Defended But Actually Implemented A Liberating Education.

The Oppressed Want At Any Cost To Resemble The Oppressors." "they Call Themselves Ignorant And Say The 'professor' Is The One Who Has Knowledge And To Whom They Should Listen." "almost Never Do They Realize That They, Too, 'know Things' They Have Learned In Their Relations With The World.

Revolution Is Born As A Social Entity Within The Oppressor Society.

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.

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.

Even Revolution, Which Transforms A Concrete Situation Of Oppression By Establishing The Process Of Liberation, Must Confront This Phenomenon. Many Of The Oppressed Who Directly Or Indirectly Participate In Revolution Intend - Conditioned By The Myths Of The Old Order - To Make It Their Private Revolution. The Shadow Of Their Former Oppressor Is Still Cast Over Them.

[humans'] Capacity To Intervene, To Compare, To Judge, To Decide, To Choose, To Desist Makes Them Capable Of Acts Of Greatness, Of Dignity, And, At The Same Time, Of The Unthinkable In Terms Of Indignity.