Pedagogy Of The Oppressed Quotes

Pedagogy Of The Oppressed Quotes by Paulo Freire and many others.

The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as

The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.
Paulo Freire
Education is suffering from narration sickness.
Paulo Freire
Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside of man; nor is it an idea which becomes myth. It is rather the indispensable condition for the quest for human completion.
Paulo Freire
Only through communication can human life hold meaning.
Paulo Freire
Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence;… to alienate humans from their own decision making is to change them into objects.
Paulo Freire
Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of the students.
Paulo Freire
To speak a true word is to transform the world.
Paulo Freire
This pedagogy makes oppression and its causes objects of reflection by the oppressed, and from that reflection will come their necessary engagement in the struggle for their liberation. And in the struggle this pedagogy will be made and remade
Paulo Freire
One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding.
Paulo Freire
Liberation is a praxis: the action and reflection of men and women upon their world in order to transform it.
Paulo Freire
True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity.
Paulo Freire
The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.
Paulo Freire
The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom.
Paulo Freire
How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation?
Paulo Freire
Certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation.
Paulo Freire
Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future.
Paulo Freire
Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle.
Paulo Freire