286 Quotes by Paulo Freire

A revolutionary leadership must accordingly practice co-intentional education.

The behavior of the oppressed is a prescribed behavior, following as it does the guidelines of the oppressor.

People in communion liberate each other.

Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.

Education is suffering from narration sickness.

The oppressors develop a series of methods precluding any presentation of the world as a problem and showing it rather as a fixed entity, as something given--something to which people, as mere spectators, must adapt.

The hope of remaking the world is indispensable in the struggle of oppressed men and women.

It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors.

But almost always, during the initial stage of the struggle, the oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors, or sub oppressors. The very structure of their thought has been conditioned by the contradiction of the concrete, existential situation by which they were shaped. Their ideal is to be men; but for them to be men is to be oppressors