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Paulo Freire Quotes
"If the structure does not permit dialogue the structure must be changed"
"Nobody liberates anybody else, and nobody liberates themselves all alone: people liberate themselves in fellowship with each other"
"The educator has the duty of not being neutral"
"The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed is to liberate themselves"
"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral"
"For apart from inquiry, apart from the praxis, individuals cannot be truly human"
"We make the road by walking"
"The more you teach the less you have to instruct"
"I am an educator who thinks globally"
"Education is an act of love thus an act of courage"
"Education does not change the world. Education changes people. People change the world"
"The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape the students. What the educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves"
"Reading is not walking on the words; it's grasping the soul of them"
"To speak a true word is to transform the world"
"Liberating education consists in acts of cognition not transferals of information"
"Leaders who do not act dialogically but insist on imposing their decisions do not organize the people they manipulate them"
"The oppressed must be their own example in the struggle for their redemption"
