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Implicit in the banking concept is the assumption of a dichotomy between human beings and the world: a person is merely in the world, not with the world or with others; the individual is spectator, not re-creator.
Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968)
Money is the measure of all things, and profit the primary goal. For the oppressors, what is worthwhile is to have more—always more—even at the cost of the oppressed having less or having nothing. For them, to be is to have.
Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968)
Thematic investigation thus becomes a common striving towards awareness of reality and towards self-awareness, which makes this investigation a starting point for the educational process or for cultural action of a liberating character.
Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968)
Organization is not only directly linked to unity, but a natural development of that unity. Accordingly, the leaders' pursuit of that unity is also an attempt to organize the people, requiring witness to the fact that the struggle for liberation is a common task.
Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968)
The dialogical character of education as the practice of freedom does not begin when the teacher-student meets with the students-teachers in pedagogical situation, but rather when the former first asks herself or himself what she or he will dialogue with the latter about.
Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968)