“Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.”
― Pedagogy of the Oppressed
― Pedagogy of the Oppressed
“The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape the students. What the educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves.”
― We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change
― We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change
“To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie.”
― Pedagogy of the Oppressed
― Pedagogy of the Oppressed
“The educator has the duty of not being neutral.”
― We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change
― We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change
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