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“It is not possible to remake this country, to democratize it, humanize it, make it serious, as long as we have teenagers killing people for play and offending life, destroying the dream, and making love unviable. If education alone cannot transform society, without it society cannot change either.”

Source: Pedagogia da indignação (Pedagogy of Indignation) (2000, English trans. 2004), p. 47 [32]

“It is when the majorities are denied their right to participate in history as Subjects that they become dominated and alienated.”

Source: Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970), Chapter 4

“The culture of the dominant class hinders the affirmation of men as beings of decision.”

Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970)

“Finally, cultural revolution develops the practice of permanent dialogue between leaders and people and consolidates the participation of the people in power.”

Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970)

“The task of revolutionary leaders is to pose as problems not only this myth, but all the other myths used by the oppressor elites to oppress.”

Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970)

“In problem-posing education, people develop their power to perceive critically the way they existin the world with which and in which they find themselves; they come to see the world not as a static reality, but as a reality in process, in transformation.”

Source: Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970), Chapter 2

“How can the oppressed, as divided unauthentic beings, participate in the pedagogy of their liberation?”

Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970)

“Those truly committed to liberation must reject the banking concept in its entirety, adopting instead a concept of women and men as conscious beings, and consciousness as consciousness intent upon the world. They must abandon the educational goal of deposit-making and replace it with the posing of the problems of human beings in their relations with the world.”

Source: Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970), Chapter 2

“One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success.”

Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970)

“Faith in people is an a priori requirement for dialogue.”

Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970)

“The road to revolution involves openness to the people, not imperviousness to them; it involves communion with the people, not mistrust.”

Source: Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970), Chapter 4, on revolution

“Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of the students.”

Source: Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970), Chapter 2

“Discovering himself to be an oppressor may cause considerable anguish, but it does not necessarily lead to solidarity with the oppressed.”

Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970)

“Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.”

Paulo Freire book Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Source: Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970), Chapter 4, Organization

“He has made use of the insights of these men to develop a perspective on education which is authentically his own and which seeks to respond to the concrete realities of Latin America.”

Paulo Freire book Pedagogy of the Oppressed

As quoted in Pedagogy of the Oppressed (2014), p.31
Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970)