Paulo Freire

"Language and reality are dynamically interconnected."

"Literacy for me means the ability to read your world and the world at large."

"Education either functions as an instrument to integrate the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity, or it becomes the practice of freedom."

"Problems are not solved by producing pamphlets or by preaching on street corners."

"Patience is not a withdrawal. It is time invested in deepening our relationship with God."

"There is no authentic existence apart from the ethical dimension."

"When the oppressed are not able to recognize that they are being oppressed, one dimension of their oppression is impossible to surmount."

"Every human being is capable of becoming conscious of all that does not correspond to their nature."

"We cannot enter the future by looking at the past."

"True solidarity is found only in the plenitude of this act of love, in its existentiality, in its praxis."

"Liberation is a praxis: the action and reflection of people upon their world in order to transform it."

"The humanist vocation is to humanize humanity."

"Technology is not neutral."

"Being fully human means not accepting any situation that reduces people below their full humanity."

"Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other."

"I cannot think for others or without others, nor can others think for me."

"Humanization is our vocation."

"A man is as free as his power to act."

"Dialogue is the sealing of the I and the Thou into we, so that both become capable of pronouncing the world."

"The human person is not a closed entity but open to the world, to others, to the future."

"Dehumanization is a historical reality, not a natural occurrence."

"Without a sense of where you came from, you cannot know where you are going."

"Oppression is dehumanizing to the oppressor as well as to the oppressed."

"For education to be truly liberating, the educator must engage in dialogue with the learner."

"One cannot be an educator without having something to say."

"To teach is to assert that the world is not finished, that we can make a difference."

"I am not afraid of dying; I am afraid of not truly living."

"The teacher is no longer merely the one who teaches, but one who is taught in dialogue with the students."

"Those who are truly committed to liberation must reject the banking model of education."

"Our capacity to be human is a process, not a finished product."