Paulo Freire Quotes

“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, The Children's Machine: Rethinking School In The Age Of The Computer

“... no entiendo la existencia humana y la necesaria lucha por mejorarla sin la esperanza y sin el sueño.”
― Paulo Freire

“To begin always anew, to make, to reconstruct, and to not spoil, to refuse to bureaucratize the mind, to understand and to live life as a process—live to become”
― Paulo Freire

“The fact that one person imagines a "well-behaved" present and the other a predetermined future does not mean that they therefore fold their arms and become spectators (the former expecting that the present will continue, the latter waiting for the already "known" future to come to pass). On the contrary, closing themselves into "circles of certainty" from which they cannot escape, these individuals "make" their own truth. It is not the truth of men and women who struggle to build the future, running the risks involved in this very construction. Nor is it the truth of men and women who fight side by side and learn together how to build this future—which is not something given to be received by people, but is rather something to be created by them. Both types of sectarian, treating history in an equally proprietary fashion, end up without the people—which is another way of being against them.”
― Donaldo Macedo

“Paulo Freire, em suas obras, enfatiza a importância do pensamento crítico como ferramenta de libertação e transformação social. Ele argumenta que a educação deve promover a reflexão crítica, permitindo que os indivíduos questionem e compreendam profundamente suas realidades. A resistência de alguns grupos religiosos às teorias de Darwin pode ser vista como uma falta de engajamento com esse pensamento crítico. Freire sugere que, sem essa reflexão, as pessoas tendem a aceitar dogmas sem questionamento, o que perpetua a ignorância e impede o progresso. Portanto, a diferença está na capacidade de questionar e entender o mundo de maneira crítica, algo que Freire considera essencial para a verdadeira emancipação.”
― Jorge Guerra Pires, Seria a Bíblia um livro científico?: Por que a Bíblia Sagrada não deve ser levada a sério e como argumentar contra ela (Estudos Bíblicos para ateus 2)