“It is accomplished by the oppressors depositing myths indispensable to the preservation of the status quo.”

— Paulo Freire

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

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educator and philosopher 1921–1997

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