Paulo Freire Pedagogy Of The Oppressed Quotes & Sayings

Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Never use the message of the cross to crucify those you don't like, or the sword of the Spirit to attack other believers. — Perry Stone

I would never do anything to hurt anybody, especially if they're helping me. I'm not that kind of person. — Billy Preston

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living. — Gerald Brenan

How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation? — Paulo Freire

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Education is suffering from narration sickness. — Paulo Freire

No pedagogy which is truly liberating can remain distant from the oppressed by treating them as unfortunates and by presenting for their emulation models from among the oppressors. The oppressed must be their own example in the struggle for their redemption (Freire, 1970, p. 54). — Paulo Freire

Creativity is an input to innovation and change is the output from innovation. — Braden Kelley

Mind you, Thunder Bay has a lot of outskirts. It's actually two cities melded together, so in a sense it has twice as many outskirts as other places. It's understandable that we got lost ... — Paul Quarrington

At crucial junctures, every individual makes decisions and ... every decision is individual, — Raul Hilberg

The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors. — Paulo Freire

This book will present some aspects of what the writer has termed the pedagogy of the oppressed, a pedagogy which must be forged with, not for, the oppressed (whether individuals or peoples) in the incessant struggle to regain their humanity. — Paulo Freire

Food can be a poison or a cure. Why would you choose to ingest toxins when you could be taking the world's best detox medicine. For the purposes of detoxification, let me be clear; always try to eat organic. — Woodson Merrell

When he marched to the altar, all the women in smart hats leaned away from the aisle, their long strands of pearls all swaying to one side as if the deck of a ship listed beneath them. — Barbara Kingsolver

It is not suprising that the banking concept of education regards men as adaptable, manageable beings. — Paulo Freire

This pedagogy makes oppression and its causes objects of reflection by the oppressed, and from that reflection will come their necessary engagement in the struggle for their liberation. And in the struggle this pedagogy will be made and remade — Paulo Freire