“No one can be authentically human while he prevents others from being so.”
― Pedagogy of the Oppressed
― Pedagogy of the Oppressed
“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
“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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