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
destiny order historical
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
doe behavior guidelines
The behavior of the oppressed is a prescribed behavior, following as it does the guidelines of the oppressor.
peace honesty powerful
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
needs relation
Every society needs to examine itself in relation to other societies.
latin thinking ideas
Just as it is important in Latin America to discuss ideas that come from North America, I think it is interesting for North Americans to discuss ideas that come from Latin America or Africa and do not insert themselves into capitalist interests.
learning hopeful inquiry
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.
people world problem
The oppressors develop a series of methods precluding any presentation of the world as a problem and showing it rather as a fixed entity, as something given--something to which people, as mere spectators, must adapt.
oppressed oppressors
It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors.
language
language is never neutral
community leader favors
The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.
world speak praxis
To speak a true word is to transform the world.
teaching reading learning
... teaching cannot be a process of transference of knowledge from the one teaching to the learner. This is the mechanical transference from which results machinelike memorization, which I have already criticized. Critical study correlates with teaching that is equally critical, which necessarily demands a critical way of comprehending and of realizing the reading of the word and that of the world, the reading of text and of context.
children real school
Finally, it is important to make it clear that imagination is not an exercise for those detached from reality, those who live in the air. On the contrary, when we imagine something, we do it necessarily conditioned by a lack in our concrete reality. When children imagine free and happy schools, it is because their real schools deny them freedom and happiness.
trust people leader
The trust of the people in the leaders reflects the confidence of the leaders in the people.