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
strive liberation pedagogy-of-the-oppressed
The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.
fighting trembling-hands generosity
True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity.
lying consciousness situation
Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in 'changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them';
reflection action discernment
Reflection and action must never be undertaken independently.
dream spiritual reflection
It is truly difficult to make a democracy. Democracy, like arty dream, is not made with spiritual words but with reflection and practice. It is not what I say that says I am a democrat, that I am not racist or machista but what I do. What I say must not be contradicted by what I do. It is what I do that bespeaks my faithfulness or not to what I say.
doe permit structure
If the structure does not permit dialogue the structure must be changed
exercise world students
Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of students, with the ideological intent (often not perceived by educators) of indoctrinating them to adapt to the world of oppression.
teaching listening doubt
This is the sense in which I am obliged to be a listener. To listen to the student's doubts, fears, and incompetencies that are part of the learning process. It is in listening to the student that I learn to speak with him or her.
educational philosophy self
No matter how much someone may irritate me, I have no right to puff myself up with my own self-importance so as to declare that person to be absolutely incompetent, assuming a posture of disdain from my own position of false superiority.
reading soul grasping
Reading is not walking on the words; it's grasping the soul of them.
educational philosophy teaching
There is, in fact, no teaching without learning.
discipline doubt doe
Coherently democratic authority carries the conviction that true discipline does not exist in the muteness of those who have been silenced but in the stirrings of those who have been challenged, in the doubt of those who have been prodded, and in the hopes of those who have been awakened.
teacher fabric teach
To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.
life what-if way
What if we discover that our present way of life is irreconcilable with our vocation to become fully human?