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
Paulo Freire quotes about
- invasion
- succeed
- essentials
- cognition
- information
- pedagogy-of-the-oppressed
- learn
- learning
- teach
- teaching
- corners
- objectivity
- subjectivity
- humans
- reflection
- understanding
- originality
- conformity
- multitudes
- guidelines
- adopted
- strive
- liberation
- components
- precisely
- acts-of-courage
- acts-of-love
- models
- oppressors
- oppressed
together roles levels
The role of the problem-posing educator is to create, together with the students, the conditions under which knowledge at the level of the doxa is superseded by true knowledge, at the level of the logos.
self people democracy
The more people participate in the process of their own education, and the more people participate in defining what kind of production to produce, and for what and why, the more people participate in the development of their selves. The more people become themselves, the better the democracy.
struggle men world
The hope of remaking the world is indispensable in the struggle of oppressed men and women.
suffering sickness pedagogy-of-the-oppressed
Education is suffering from narration sickness.
practice revolutionary
A revolutionary leadership must accordingly practice co-intentional education.
assuming obvious teach
Experience teaches us not to assume that the obvious is clearly understood
class privilege pursuit
The oppressors do not perceive their monopoly on having more as a privilege which dehumanizes others and themselves. They cannot see that, in the egoistic pursuit of having as a possessing class, they suffocate in their own possessions and no longer are; they merely have.
order shadow revolution
Even revolution, which transforms a concrete situation of oppression by establishing the process of liberation, must confront this phenomenon. Many of the oppressed who directly or indirectly participate in revolution intend - conditioned by the myths of the old order - to make it their private revolution. The shadow of their former oppressor is still cast over them.
invasion succeed essentials
For cultural invasion to succeed, it is essential that those invaded become convinced of their intrinsic inferiority.
struggle responsibility essentials
It is essential for the oppressed to realize that when they accept the struggle for humanization they also accept, from that moment, their total responsibility for the struggle.
educational philosophy teaching
The role of the educator is one of tranquil possession of certitude in regard to the teaching of not only contents but also of 'correct thinking.'
educational philosophy literature
One of my major preoccupations is the approximation between what I say and what I do, between what I seem to be and what I am actually becoming.
teacher educational philosophy
Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral authority to coordinate the activities of the classroom.
philosophy educational school
The atmosphere of the home is prolonged in the school, where the students soon discover thatin order to achieve some satisfaction they must adapt to the precepts which have ben set from above. One of these precepts is not to think.