3 Quotes by Paolo Freire

All education is with a purpose and that purpose can only be political, for we either educate to liberate or we educate to dominate.

Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed. How could they be the initiators, if they themselves are the result of violence?

I think that we have to create in ourselves, through critical analysis of our practice, some qualities, some virtues as educators. One of them, for example, is the quality of becoming more and more open to feel the feelings of others, to become so sensitive that we can guess what the group or one person is thinking at that moment.