Paulo Freire
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"Education is the practice of freedom—the means by which people deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world."
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"Banking education treats students as empty vessels to be filled with knowledge."
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"Conscientization is the deepening of the attitude of awareness."
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"We must adopt a critical pedagogy that treats students as subjects, not objects."
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"Reading the world comes before reading the word."
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"The more students work at storing the deposits entrusted to them, the less they develop the critical consciousness which would result from their intervention in the world as transformers of that world."
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"A person is not illiterate because he or she cannot read and write, but because he or she cannot read the world."
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"To teach is not to transfer knowledge but to create the possibilities for the production or construction of knowledge."
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"Education makes sense because women and men learn that through learning they can make and remake themselves, because women and men are able to take responsibility for themselves."
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"Education either functions as an instrument which integrates the younger generation into the logic of the present system and brings about conformity; or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which people deal critically and creatively with reality."
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