286 Quotes by Paulo Freire

The educator has the duty of not being neutral.

… Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle…

The more we become able to become a child again, to keep ourselves childlike, the more we can understand that because we love the world and we are open to understanding, to comprehension, that when we kill the child in us, we are no longer.

P29 - the oppressed, having internalised the image of the oppressor and adopted his guideline are fearful of freedom. Freedom would require them to eject this image and replace it with autonomy and responsibility.

Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching, and whoever learns teaches in the act of learning.

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

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

P57- the oppressors, whose tranquility rests on how well people fit the world the oppressors have created, and how little they question it.

As long as I fight, I am moved by hope; and if I fight with hope, then I can wait.