Quotes About Paulo Freire

revolutionaries themselves become reactionary by falling into sectarianism in the process of responding to the sectarianism of the Right.

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.

Concern for humanization leads at once to the recognition of dehumanization, not only as an ontological possibility but as an historical reality.

The theory without the practice becomes 'verbosity', as well as the practice without theory, turns activism. However, when it joins the practice with the theory has been the praxis, the creative and modifier action of reality.

the epitome of negation in the context of education is the stifling or inhibition of curiosity in the learner

Let me reemphasize that posing reality as a problem does not mean sloganizing: it means critical analysis of a problematic reality.

Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors, which in turn dehumanizes the oppressed