“Individuals who were submerged in reality, merely feeling their needs, emerge from reality and perceive the causes of their needs.”

—  Paulo Freire

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

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educator and philosopher 1921–1997

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