Frasi di Paulo Freire

„La vera generosità consiste precisamente nel combattere per distruggere le cause che alimentano la falsa carità.“

—  Paulo Freire, libro La pedagogia degli oppressi

La pedagogia degli oppressi

„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

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

—  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

„I leader che non agiscono dialogicamente, ma insistono nell'imporre le loro decisioni, non organizzano le persone, le manipolano. Non liberano, né sono liberati: opprimono.“

—  Paulo Freire

„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

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

„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

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

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

—  Paulo Freire

„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)

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

—  Paulo Freire

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

„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

„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

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

„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