Paulo Freire Quotes on Politics
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1968) presses Freire's epistemology of dialogical learning into an explicit political programme: education is never politically neutral, and the dominant educational models are themselves instruments through which the oppressive social order reproduces itself in the cognitive habits of the oppressed. The framework supplies the philosophical foundation for the literacy and popular-education movements that the Latin American left, and subsequently much of the Global South, would build on Freire's method, with the parallel pedagogical writings — Pedagogy of Hope (1992), Pedagogy of Freedom (1996) — extending the framework to the conditions of post-dictatorship democratic reconstruction.
Quotes
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Attributed to Paulo Freire:
“Education is never neutral; it is either domesticating or liberating.”
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Attributed to Paulo Freire:
“The oppressed must liberate themselves, and in doing so liberate the oppressors.”
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Attributed to Paulo Freire:
“Reading the world precedes reading the word.”
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Attributed to Paulo Freire:
“Dialogue is the encounter of those who name the world.”
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Attributed to Paulo Freire:
“To exist humanly is to name the world, to change it.”
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“The oppressors, who oppress, exploit, and rape by virtue of their power, cannot find in this power the strength to liberate either the oppressed or themselves.”
on the oppressors