Paulo Freire

Frases de Paulo Freire

• “While education alone cannot transform society, without it, society won't change either.”

• “Teaching is not transferring knowledge, but creating the possibilities for its own production or construction.”

• “When education is not liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor.”

• “There is no knowing more or knowing less. There are only different types of knowledge.”

• “No one educates anyone else, nor do we educate ourselves; we educate one another, mediated by the world.”

• “We must have hope, but hope as an active verb; because some people have hope that is just waiting around.”

• “Reading the world precedes reading the word.”

• “Joy does not only arrive with the discovery, but is part of the search process itself.”

• “Education does not change the world. Education changes people. People change the world.”

• “No one is born fully formed. We make ourselves little by little, in the social practice in which we take part.”

• “Humility expresses one of the rare certainties I have: that no one knows everything, and no one is ignorant of everything.”

• “He who teaches learns by teaching, and he who learns teaches by learning.”

• “Theory without practice becomes 'verbalism', just as practice without theory becomes blind activism.”

• “Men are not built in silence, but in word, in work, and in action-reflection.”

• “Literacy is more than knowing how to read and write. It is the ability to read the world.”