Paulo Freire Quotes

Education is freedom.

Paulo Freire

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

Paulo Freire

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.

Paulo Freire

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

Paulo Freire

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.

Paulo Freire