The 70 best phrases of Paulo Freire
Paulo Freire is one of the great educators of the 20th century. His ideas and thoughts are classified as revolutionary, due to his work and way of thinking, it was exiled after the military coup that occurred in Brazil (his native country) in 1984, which led him to take refuge in Chili.
Freire grew up in a society where the dominant and dominated classes existed, this allowed the need to restructure the education.
For this reason, in this article we present you the best phrases and reflections of Paulo Freire.
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Great phrases by Paulo Freire
This great pedagogue inspires us with his best thoughts about education and life. We are going to know below the most famous quotes of him in which he reflects on education, the learning process and life.
1. As long as the oppressed remain unaware of the causes of their fatalistic condition, they accept their exploitation.
As long as man is an uneducated individual, he will be a slave.
2. The true education is not that carried out by A for B or by A on B; true education is that which is carried out by A with B, together with the mediation of the world.
The union between teacher and student is essential for good results to be obtained.
3. Teaching requires knowing how to listen.
The good teacher is one who has the ability to know how to listen to others.
4. We all know something. All of us are ignorant of something. Therefore, we always learn
No person knows everything or ignores everything, he is always in a constant search for knowledge.
5. The democratic educator cannot deny himself the duty to reinforce, in his teaching practice, the critical capacity of the learner, his curiosity, his insubordination.
The educator has to encourage in each person the investigation, desire and desire to learn.
6. Education does not change the world: it changes the people who are going to change the world.
The only people responsible for changing the world are people through education.
7. I fight for an education that teaches us to think and not for an education that teaches us to obey
Paulo Freire firmly believed that the student should be taught to think and not to imitate.
8. Education is freedom.
Being free is associated with education.
9. There is no such thing as knowing less. There are simply different types of knowledge.
Everyone has endless knowledge, which may or may not coincide with those of other individuals.
10. The terrible consequences of negative thinking are perceived too late
When we are surrounded by negative thoughts and we do not find a way to get away from them, we are doomed to suffer the consequences at some point.
11. I know that things can even get worse, but I also know that it is possible to intervene to improve them.
We can always participate and help improve any situation no matter how difficult it may seem.
12. People educate each other, through the mediation of the world
We can all do our bit so that all those in need can have the privilege of being a participant in education.
13. The word is not a privilege of a few people, but the right of all people
Everyone has the right to receive a quality education, regardless of race, social status, or sex.
14. Sectarianization represents an obstacle to the emancipation of human beings.
The presence of sectarianism prevents man from being totally free and independent and having free thought.
15. Looking at the past should only be a means to understand more clearly what and who we are, to be able to build the future more intelligently
We must not remain anchored in the past, we only have to look to have the tools, to have a better future.
16. As a presence in history and in the world, I hopefully fight for dreams, for utopia, for hope, with a view to a critical pedagogy. And my fight is not in vain.
Freire fought for the students to have a critical way of thinking that would allow them to question any situation.
17. Freedom is acquired through conquest, not as a gift. It must be carried out consistently and responsibly
No civil conquest was made due to the indifference of the oppressors: Freedom is not achieved easily, on the contrary, you have to work hard and be constant to achieve it.
18. Language is never neutral.
Words are always loaded with ideological and political suggestions.
19. Teaching is not transferring knowledge, but creating possibilities for your own production or construction.
When teaching we must not transmit our knowledge, but stimulate the imagination and research in the student.
20. Teaching demands respect for the autonomy of the learner's being
You cannot break the personality of the student at the time of teaching.
21. My vision of literacy goes beyond ba, be, bi, bo, bu. Because it implies a critical understanding of the social, political and economic reality in which the literate is
When you are teaching a person you have to take into consideration the reality in which he lives.
22. I am an educator who thinks globally
Paulo Freire's vision of education was not only focused on his country, but also included the entire world.
23. Change is difficult but it is possible.
Changes are difficult to undertake and accept, but it is not a complicated task to carry out.
24. To alienate human beings from their own decision making is to turn them into objects.
Taking away from people their right to make their own decisions is the same as turning them into useless beings.
25. The greatest, humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves.
The first step to free yourself from oppression is to release the yoke that is within you.
26. Reading is not walking in words; is to take their soul
Reading does not mean discovering a world of words, but deciphering the meaning of each one.
27. I cannot think for others or without others, nor can others think for me.
Each one is the owner of their thoughts and emotions.
28. If the nature of the human being is respected, then the teaching of the contents cannot be given away from the moral formation of the student.
Education and respect for the person go hand in hand.
29. Instead of communicating, the teacher makes deposits that students receive, memorize, and repeat over and over again.
The educator must teach his students through fluid, simple and assertive communication.
30. Those who instill hatred are not the hated, but those who hate first.
Those who instill hatred are not the hated, but those who hate first.
31. Education is constantly remade itself in praxis. To be, it has to be being.
Teaching must be constant, it must not stop.
32. Accepting and respecting the difference is one of those virtues without which listening cannot be achieved.
The success of good communication relies on empathy.
33. Nobody has the freedom to be free, but because they are not free they fight to get their freedom.
A free person is one who constantly strives to achieve it.
34. Sectarianism creates nothing because it does not love.
Fanatical people have nothing to contribute because they lack their own ideas.
35. Children need to be assured of the right to learn to decide, which is only done by deciding.
Childhood is a stage that needs to be assured with the right to education.
36. The people's trust in the leaders reflects the leaders' trust in the people.
Every ruler has to profess the trust that his people give him.
37. Men are not formed in silence, they are formed in words, in work, in action, in reflection.
Every man must learn through language, example and work.
38. There is no dialogue if there is no humility, nor if there is no strong and unshakable faith in human beings.
Dialogue deserves empathy and good will in the man.
39. Study is not measured by the number of pages read in one night, nor by the number of books read in a semester. Studying is not an act of consuming ideas, but of creating and recreating them.
Learning does not refer to memorization, but to understanding and comprehension.
40. To educate is to impregnate everything we do at all times with meaning.
All the activities we do daily leave us learning.
41. Men and women seldom admit their fear of freedom openly, yet they tend rather to camouflage it by presenting themselves as defenders of freedom.
Being free requires a commitment that is not always assumed due to existing fear.
42. There is no teaching without research and no research without teaching.
Education and research go hand in hand, one cannot exist without the presence of the other.
43. Literacy is not learning to repeat words, but to say your word.
Training is not about repeating words, but about understanding their meaning.
44. Education is an act of love.
There is no purer love than that given by teaching a person.
45. The oppressed, after having internalized the image of the oppressor and approved his directives, are afraid of freedom.
When a person lives in darkness, it is that he accepts his oppressor since he is afraid of being absolutely free.
46. How can I dialogue if I always project my ignorance on others and never perceive my own?
When you don't have an education, ignorance will always be present.
47. Oppression is domestication.
Dominance towards other people is an act of submission.
48. There is no true word that is not unbreakable union between action and reflection.
Before acting, you have to reflect on what you are going to do.
49. Any relationship of domination, exploitation, oppression, is itself violence. It doesn't matter if it is done through drastic means or not.
Any action that goes against the rights of individuals is an act of extreme cruelty.
50. Reading the world precedes reading the word.
You have to understand the world first in order to understand the word.
51. Having a free and permeable thought allows a greater integration of knowledge and knowledge.
When thought is free, more knowledge can be acquired.
52. In order to function, authority must be on the side of freedom, not against it.
The rulers have the duty to guarantee the freedom of their people.
53. It's necesary to make a pedagogy about the question. We are always listening to a pedagogy of the answer. Teachers answer questions that students have not asked.
A teacher should promote the execution of questions that come from his students, not theirs.
54. Oppression is fueled by the love of death and not by the love of life.
Domination is synonymous with death.
55. I am not in the world simply to adapt to it, but to transform it.
Paulo Freire's fundamental idea was to transform the world through education.
56. Only the power that arises from the weakness of the oppressed will be strong enough to liberate everyone.
Oppressed people will at some point have the strength to get out of that situation of their own free will.
57. Manipulation, like the conquest whose goals it serves, tries to anesthetize people from thinking.
One way to prevent man from thinking for himself is by manipulating him.
58. One of the basic elements of the relationship between oppressors and oppressed is prescription.
In an oppressor-oppressed relationship there is an expiration period.
59. The crowd is always wrong
The masses are not always completely right.
60. One should try to live with others in solidarity… only through human communication can life find meaning.
You have to practice coexistence and empathy at all times.
61. The tranquility of the oppressors is based on how well people adapt to the world they have created, and how little they question it.
An oppressor lives in peace, while the people get used to their way of life.
62. To wash your hands in the face of conflicts between the powerful and the not powerful is to stand on the side of the powerful, it is not to be neutral.
Man is called to get involved in the important affairs of society.
63. When I say man, woman is included. And why don't men feel included when it is said: women are determined to change the world?
The inclusion of men and women must be equal in society.
64. The more critical a human group is, the more democratic and permeable it is.
Criticism allows creating a more democratic and transparent society.
65. If education alone does not transform society, without it society does not change either.
Education is a powerful tool to change everything.
66. I am an intellectual who is not afraid to be loving. I love all people and I love the world. That is why I fight for social injustice to be implanted before charity.
Love is the most beautiful and powerful feeling that human beings have.
67. There is no life without correction, without rectification.
When we forgive ourselves and others, life is easier and easier.
68. Every morning a yesterday is created, through a today... we have to know what we were, to know what we will be.
Understanding the past allows us to establish ourselves in today, to have a better future.
69. Joy does not come to meet discovery, but is part of the search process.
When continually on a quest, the main ingredient to carry is joy.
70. If the structure does not allow a dialogue, the structure must be changed.
If a model is not accessible to the dialog, it is necessary to change it immediately.
His legacy in the educational world crosses borders, since he was committed to educating the most excluded.