Paulo Freire
Paulo Freire
Paulo Reglus Neves Freirewas a Brazilian educator and philosopher who was a leading advocate of critical pedagogy. He is best known for his influential work, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, considered one of the foundational texts of the critical pedagogy movement...
NationalityBrazilian
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth19 September 1921
CountryBrazil
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- essentials
- cognition
- information
- pedagogy-of-the-oppressed
- learn
- learning
- teach
- teaching
- corners
- objectivity
- subjectivity
- humans
- reflection
- understanding
- originality
- conformity
- multitudes
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- liberation
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- acts-of-love
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- oppressors
- oppressed
independent reflection reality
Education as the practice of freedom--as opposed to education as the practice of domination--denies that man is abstract, isolated, independent and unattached to the world; it also denies that the world exists as reality apart from people. Authentic reflection considers neither abstract man nor the world without people, but people in their relations with the world. In these relations consciousness and world are simultaneous: consciousness neither precedes the world nor follows it.
corners
The future isn't something hidden in a corner.The future is something we build in the present.
acts-of-courage acts-of-love
Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage
capacity advantage conditioning
This capacity to go beyond the factors of conditioning is one of the obvious advantages of the human person.
becoming imagine victim
It's really not possible for someone to imagine himself/herself as a subject in the process of becoming without having at the same time a disposition for change. And change of which she/he is not merely the victim but the subject.
sleep world splits
The world is split between those who do not sleep because they are hungry and those who do not sleep because they are afraid of those who are hungry.
struggle reality order
In order for the oppressed to be able to wage the struggle for their liberation, they must perceive the reality of oppression not as a closed world from which there is no exit , but as a limiting situation which they can transform.
would-be contradiction term
It would be a contradiction in terms if the oppressors not only defended but actually implemented a liberating education.
class facts defense
A fact which is not denied but whose truths are rationalized loses its objective base. It ceases to be concrete and becomes a myth created in defense of the class of the perceiver.
humility dialogue
Dialogue cannot exist without humility.
struggle book humanity
This book will present some aspects of what the writer has termed the pedagogy of the oppressed, a pedagogy which must be forged with, not for, the oppressed (whether individuals or peoples) in the incessant struggle to regain their humanity.
doe behavior guidelines
The behavior of the oppressed is a prescribed behavior, following as it does the guidelines of the oppressor.
commitment reality reflection
An unauthentic word, one which is unable to transform reality, results when dichotomy is imposed upon its constitutive elements. When a word is deprived of its dimension of action, reflection automatically suffers as well; and the word is changed into idle chatter, into verbalism, into an alienated and alienating “blah.” It becomes an empty word, one which cannot denounce the world, for denunciation is impossible without a commitment to transform, and there is no transformation without action.
reflection men people
Libertarian action must recognize this dependence as a weak point and must attempt through reflection and action to transform it into independence. However, not even the best-intentioned leadership can bestow independence as a gift. The liberation of the oppressed is a liberation of women and men, not things. Accordingly, while no one liberates himself by his own efforts alone, neither is he liberated by others. Liberation, a human phenomenon, cannot be achieved by semihumans. Any attempt to treat people as semihumans only dehumanizes them.