Paulo Freire Pedagogy Quotes

#1. Education is suffering from narration sickness.

Paulo Freire

#2. She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.

Gwendolyn Brooks

#3. Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside of man; nor is it an idea which becomes myth. It is rather the indispensable condition for the quest for human completion.

Paulo Freire

#4. but the older he got, the better he understood; forgiveness was an act done after the fact - a piece of the bad deeds future - and if you point the people's eyes to the future they might not see what is being done to hurt them in the present.

Yaa Gyasi

#5. This pedagogy makes oppression and its causes objects of reflection by the oppressed, and from that reflection will come their necessary engagement in the struggle for their liberation. And in the struggle this pedagogy will be made and remade

Paulo Freire

#6. compatriots needed to weave into the social fabric bakeries close to home or bread trucks that deliver; like a sort of societal gluten, sources of bread constitute networks of sociability that structure daily life.

Steven Laurence Kaplan

#7. Fair is the marigold, for pottage meet.

John Gay

#8. The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.

Paulo Freire

#9. Generally in life, knowledge is acquired to be used. But school learning more often fits Freire's apt metaphor: knowledge is treated like money, to be put away in a bank for the future.

Seymour Papert

#10. Deep inside me something says don't feel anything, go back to sleep, when you feel, it hurts. When you love, people die.
- Ruth Mendenberg

Carol Matas

#11. It is not suprising that the banking concept of education regards men as adaptable, manageable beings.

Paulo Freire

#12. Once upon a time men were possessed by devils. Now they are not less obsessed by ideas

Carl Jung

#13. I've been tracking Nick's moods. Toward me. Just to make sure I'm not crazy. I've got a calendar, and I put hearts on any day Nick seems to love me again, and black squares when he doesn't.

Gillian Flynn

#14. How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation?

Paulo Freire

#15. No pedagogy which is truly liberating can remain distant from the oppressed by treating them as unfortunates and by presenting for their emulation models from among the oppressors. The oppressed must be their own example in the struggle for their redemption (Freire, 1970, p. 54).

Paulo Freire

#16. This book will present some aspects of what the writer has termed the pedagogy of the oppressed, a pedagogy which must be forged with, not for, the oppressed (whether individuals or peoples) in the incessant struggle to regain their humanity.

Paulo Freire