Top 184 Quotes & Sayings by Paulo Freire - Page 4

A fact which is not denied but whose truths are rationalized loses its objective base. It ceases to be concrete and becomes a myth created in defense of the class of the perceiver.

We must be forewarned that only rarely does a text easily lend itself to the reader's curiosity... the reading of a text is a transaction between the reader and the text, which mediates the encounter between the reader and writer. It is a composition between the reader and the writer in which the reader "rewrites" the text making a determined effort not to betray the author's spirit.

It is not suprising that the banking concept of education regards men as adaptable, manageable beings.

Individuals who were submerged in reality, merely feeling their needs, emerge from reality and perceive the causes of their needs.