286 Quotes by Paulo Freire

It doesnt hurt to repeat here the statement, still rejected by many people in spite of its obviousness, that education is a political act.

Critical reflection on practice is a requirement of the relationship between theory and practice. Otherwise theory becomes simply "blah, blah, blah, " and practice, pure activism.

It is necessary that the weakness of the powerless is transformed into a force capable of announcing justice. For this to happen, a total denouncement of fatalism is necessary. We are transformative beings and not beings for accommodation.

The role of the problem-posing educator is to create, together with the students, the conditions under which knowledge at the level of the doxa is superseded by true knowledge, at the level of the logos.

language is never neutral

In order to have the continued opportunity to express their "generosity" the oppressors must perpetuate injustice as well.

To speak a true word is to transform the world.

Any attempt to treat people as semihumans only dehumanizes them...

... teaching cannot be a process of transference of knowledge from the one teaching to the learner. This is the mechanical transference from which results machinelike memorization, which I have already criticized. Critical study correlates with teaching that is equally critical, which necessarily demands a critical way of comprehending and of realizing the reading of the word and that of the world, the reading of text and of context.