Frasi di Paulo Freire

„Nessuno educa nessuno, nessuno si educa da solo, gli uomini si educano insieme, con la mediazione del mondo.“

—  Paulo Freire, libro La pedagogia degli oppressi

La pedagogia degli oppressi

„Non ci si possono aspettare risultati positivi da un programma di azione educativo o politico che non rispetti la particolare visione del mondo detenuta dalla gente. Tale programma costituisce un'invasione culturale, nonostante le buone intenzioni.“

—  Paulo Freire

„Lavarsi le mani dal conflitto tra i potenti e gli impotenti significa schierarsi con i potenti, non essere neutrali.“

—  Paulo Freire

„Liberazione, un fenomeno umano, che non può essere ottenuto da semiumani.“

—  Paulo Freire, libro La pedagogia degli oppressi

La pedagogia degli oppressi

„Gli oppressori non sentono il loro avere di più come privilegio che disumanizza gli altri e loro stessi.“

—  Paulo Freire, libro La pedagogia degli oppressi

La pedagogia degli oppressi

„Reading is not walking on the words; it's grasping the soul of them.“

—  Paulo Freire

„True solidarity is found only in the plenitude of this act of love, and in its existentiality, in its praxis.“

—  Paulo Freire

Chapter 1, on the oppressors
Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970)

„One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding.“

—  Paulo Freire, libro La pedagogia degli oppressi

Origine: Pedagogy of the Oppressed

„Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future.“

—  Paulo Freire, libro La pedagogia degli oppressi

Chapter 2
Origine: Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970)

„Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.“

—  Paulo Freire

Chapter 10, page 122
The Politics of Education (1985)

„Attempting to liberate the oppressed without their reflective participation in the act of liberation is to treat them as objects that must be saved from a burning building.“

—  Paulo Freire, libro La pedagogia degli oppressi

Origine: Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970)

„If the structure does not permit dialogue the structure must be changed“

—  Paulo Freire

„… Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle…“

—  Paulo Freire, libro La pedagogia degli oppressi

Origine: Pedagogy of the Oppressed

„The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.“

—  Paulo Freire, libro La pedagogia degli oppressi

Origine: Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970)

„No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.“

—  Paulo Freire

„Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence;… to alienate humans from their own decision making is to change them into objects.“

—  Paulo Freire

„language is never neutral“

—  Paulo Freire

„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.“

—  Paulo Freire, We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change

Origine: We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change

„The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves…“

—  Paulo Freire