Quotes About Knowledge

Dialogue is never an end in itself but a means to develop a better comprehension about the object of knowledge. Otherwise, one could end up with dialogue as conversation where individual lived experiences are given primacy.

Primeiro: o movimento interno que unifica os elementos do método e os excede em amplitude de humanismo pedagógico. Segundo: esse movimento reproduz e manifesta o processo histórico em que o homem se reconhece. Terceiro: os rumos possíveis desse processo são possíveis projetos e, por conseguinte, a conscientização não é apenas conhecimento ou reconhecimento, mas opção, decisão, compromisso.

ÖÄŸretmen öÄŸretmelidir. Bunu yapmak zorundad?r. Ama öÄŸretmek bilgiyi aktarmak deÄŸildir. Bir eyleme öÄŸretme eylemi denebilmesi için, öÄŸrenme eyleminin öÄŸrencilerin ayn? zamanda kendilerine öÄŸretilen bilgiyi üreten kiÅŸiler haline geldikleri, içeriÄŸi ya da bilinebilir nesneyi kavrama eyleminden önce ya da onunla eÅŸ zamanl? olarak gerçekleÅŸmesi gerekir.

Only human beings are praxis--the praxis which, as the reflection and action which truly transform reality, is the source of knowledge and creation. Animal activity, which occurs without a praxis, is not creative; people's transforming activity is.

Sólo existe saber en la invención, en la reinvención, en la búsqueda inquieta, impaciente, permanente que los hombres realizan en el mundo, con el mundo y con otros.

Verbalistic lessons, reading requirements,3 the methods for evaluating "knowledge," the distance between the teacher and the taught, the criteria for promotion: everything in this ready-to-wear approach serves to obviate thinking.

Não nego a competência, por outro lado, de certos arrogantes, mas lamento neles a ausência de simplicidade que, não diminuindo em nada seu saber, os faria gente melhor. Gente mais gente.

The radical is never a subjectivist. For this individual the subjective aspect exists only in relation to the objective aspect (the concrete reality, which is the object of analysis). Subjectivity and objectivity thus join in a dialectical unity producing knowledge in solidarity with action, and vice versa.

For the dialogical, problem-posing teacher-student, the program content of education is neither a gift nor an imposition—bits of information to be deposited in the students—but rather the organized, systematized, and developed "re-presentation" to individuals of the things about which they want to know more.

Consciousness is the constant unveiling of reality.

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.

For apart from inquiry, apart from the praxis, individuals cannot be truly human. 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.

Satyam jnanam, anantam Brahma: Knowledge is truth and Brahman is eternal, was what he proclaimed, and the Upanishads were the source of his jnana.

Having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card." [ Arthur ]

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

the problem with knowing is that it takes away the possibility of pretending!

I am always glad when any of my books can be put into an inexpensive edition, because I like to think that any people who might wish to read them can do so. Surely books ought to be within reach of everybody.

one may know how to gain victory, and know not how to use it

No, I dream not, since I know What I am and what I've been.

a quien le daña el saber homicida es de sí mismo!

que a quien le daña el saber homicida es de sí mismo!

One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.

Books had taught me new ideas and had shown me ways of life that I would not have known about otherwise, and they offered a refuge when, like now, real life seemed too hard.

I know the answer now, and that knowledge absolutely coexists with a terrible longing for the mother love I never had and never will have.