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Individuals who were submerged in reality, merely feeling their needs, emerge from reality and perceive the causes of their needs.
Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968)
Someone who cannot acknowledge himself to be as mortal as everyone else still has a long way to go before he can reach the point of encounter."
Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968)
To simply think about the people, as the dominators do, without any self-giving in that thought, to fail to think with the people, is a sure way to cease being revolutionary leaders.
Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968)
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.
Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968)
The task of revolutionary leaders is to pose as problems not only this myth, but all the other myths used by the oppressor elites to oppress.
Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968)
As long as they live in the duality in which to be is to to be like, and to be like is to be like the oppressor, this contribution is impossible.
Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968)
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.
Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968)
Our converts, on the other hand, truly desire to transform the unjust order; but because of their background they believe that they must be the executors of the transformation.
Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968)
It is essential for the oppressed to realize that when they accept the struggle for humanization they also accept, from that moment, their total responsibility for the struggle.
Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968)
In order for the oppressed to unite they must first cut the umbilical cord of magic and myth which binds them to the world of oppression; the unity which links them to each other must be of a different nature.
Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968)
Dialogue cannot exist without humility.
Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968)
Critical perception cannot be imposed.
Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968)
Trust is established by dialogue.
Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968)
This work deals with a very obvious truth: just as the oppressor, in order to oppress, needs a theory of oppressive action, so the oppressed, in order to become free, also need a theory of action.
Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968)
The correct method lies in dialogue. The conviction of the oppressed that they must fight in their liberation is not a gift bestowed by the revolutionary leadership, but the result of their own conscientização.
Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968)
In sum: banking theory and practice, as immobilizing and fixating forces, fail to acknowledge men and women as historical beings; problem-posing theory and practice take the people's historicity as their starting point.
Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968)
The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors
Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968)
The basic thing, starting from the initial perception of these nuclei of contradictions (which include the principal contradiction of society as a larger epochal unit) is to study the inhabitants' awareness of these contradictions.
Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968)
In problem-posing education, people develop their power to perceive critically the way they existin the world with which and in which they find themselves; they come to see the world not as a static reality, but as a reality in process, in transformation.
Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968)
Some may think that to affirm dialogue—the encounter of women and men in the world in order to transform the world—is naively and subjectively idealistic. There is nothing, however, more real or concrete than people in the world and with the world, than humans with other humans.
Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968)