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.

— Paulo Freire Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968)

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