Paulo Freire

"Education is the practice of freedom, the means by which people deal with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world."

"Knowing that I do not know leaves me more open to learn what I do not know."

"Love is an act of courage."

"As long as I am a human being, I cannot stop being a person. And as long as I remain a person, I must be engaged with other people."

"No one can be authentically human while he prevents others from being so."

"Hope is an ontological need."

"The more you become a reader, the more the world will open to you."

"Reading is not walking on the lines of a text. Reading is grasping the soul of what the text is saying."

"To be human is to engage in relationships with others, to be changemakers."

"Dialogue is the encounter between humans with the intent to name the world."

"My presence in the world is not just here, it is also a presence with others."

"Conscientization cannot be done for the people but only with them."

"Reflection without action is just mere verbalism."

"The oppressed cannot liberate themselves alone, but only in communion with others."

"We must dare to think 'dangerously' about education."

"To exist, humanly, is to name the world, to change it."

"You cannot divorce radical political change from human beings becoming more fully human."

"Fear of freedom may well lead us to embrace the rigidity of rules and regulations."

"The great humanistic and historical task of the oppressed is to liberate themselves and their oppressors as well."

"If education is the instrument through which we achieve freedom, literacy is the foundation."

"Pedagogy should be made of the dreams of the people."

"Only dialogue truly communicates."

"I am convinced that authentic education makes possible the development of critical consciousness."

"Humanization is thwarted by injustice, exploitation, oppression, and the violence of the oppressors."

"The role of the problem-posing educator is to create, in concert with the students, the conditions under which knowledge at its true sense is superseded."

"Without a sense of identity, there is no real struggle."

"Cultural action is just as much a part of human beings and their humanity as food is."

"Praxis is reflection and action upon the world in order to transform it."

"The mind of man grows only as man is himself able to transcend his own immediate situation."

"Awareness and recognition of yourself brings with it the sense of recognition in the world."