Quotes by Paulo Freire

"Education is freedom."

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"The trust of the people in the leaders reflects the confidence of the leaders in the people."

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"Those truly committed to liberation must reject the banking concept in its entirety, adopting instead a concept of women and men as conscious beings and consciousness as consciousness intent upon the world."

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"Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information."

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"Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students."

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