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Revolution is born as a social entity within the oppressor society.

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The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom.

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

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Education is freedom.

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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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It is absolutely essential that the oppressed participate in the revolutionary process with an increasingly critical awareness of their role as subjects of the transformation.

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Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

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Manipulation, sloganizing, depositing, regimentation, and prescription cannot be components of revolutionary praxis, precisely because they are the components of the praxis of domination.

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I am an educator who thinks globally.

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It is not systematic education which somehow molds society, but, on the contrary, society which, according to its particular structure, shapes education in relation to the ends and interests of those who control the power in that society.

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Biography

Nationality: Brazilian

Type: Educator

Born: September 19th, 1921

Died: May 2nd, 1997

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